Namibia: 12-Year-Old Girl Commits Suicide

A 12-YEAR-OLD girl committed suicide by hanging herself in her mother's room in the Mondesa residential area in Swakopmund last week, allegedly because she was 'hated'.

Emilia Nepembe, a Grade 7 learner at Atlantic Primary School in Swakopmund, used a rope to hang herself on Tuesday between 16h00 and 21h00.

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