Poll shows 11.1% of HK youths consider suicide

AFP AND DPA , HONG KONG
Wednesday, Apr 14, 2004,Page 5

Two suicides and one attempted suicide were recorded in Hong Kong on the day a survey showed one-tenth of young people had considered taking their lives, police and media reports said yesterday.

All three had leapt from buildings in bids to end their lives on Monday, police said.

University teaching assistant Chan Kam-kei, 29, was suffering from depression after losing his job, the Apple Daily newspaper said, and jumped from a 10th-floor balcony.

He later died from his injuries in the hospital.

A heartbroken girl, 19, leapt to her death from a 19th-floor window after a row with her boyfriend she suspected was having an affair with a friend.

Another girl, a 20-year-old named Lee, was being treated in hospital for serious head injuries after jumping from the first floor of a shopping center.

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