A 13-year-old Junior Secondary School 2 pupil, identified as Josephine Wonah, has allegedly committed suicide in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State.

A blogger based in the area, Matthew Okache, disclosed that the deceased drank herbicide after a quarrel with her mother. She was rushed to a hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Okache stated,

Josephine had a misunderstanding with her mother and the mother scolded her and she became offended, went inside the house and drank the herbicide used by her mother to kill grass in the farm.

After drinking the herbicide, she went to her bed and lay down with nobody knowing until she started passing faeces and vomiting; that was when people realised what had happened.

She was rushed to the Santa Maria Clinic along Imaje Road, Okuku, but died shortly afterwards.

According to the blogger, the deceased was a student of a private secondary school in Okuku, adding that

her corpse was buried immediately as such an incident is a taboo in the area.

The Cross River State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Irene Ugbo, said she had yet to receive the report on the incident.

Justin Nwosu

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