Chandapiwa Baputaki
28 November 2008
Another Motswana student in Malaysia yesterday jumped from a fifth floor of their residential apartment two months after arriving in Malaysia to start his first year in Information Technology.
His death comes hardly a month after another student studying in the same country plunged to his death from the ninth floor. The student who hails from Hukuntsi was still doing his foundation programme at the Limkokwing University of Creative Knowledge.
"The Ministry of Education and Skills Development is concerned about the number of deaths caused by students falling from their apartments in Malaysia. We are trying to find a way to address the situation," said principal public relations officer (PRO) Nomsa Zuze said when confirming the incident.
She explained that they cannot say the students committed suicide because they never left suicide notes or said anything to suggest that they wanted to end their lives. "We cannot also not say that the students died while they were drunk because we have no evidence of that except rumours," she said.
The student has not been named until the next of kin have been notified.
Last month another student died in Malaysia after he lost control of the car he was driving. With him were three other Batswana students who suffered injuries.
Early this year, two other students died in a road accident in a hired car. Reports from Malaysia say that Botswana's students studying in that country are abusing alcohol and drugs.
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