Another child died by suicide this weekend, allegedly after he was accused of deleting the WhatsApp application from his father’s cellphone.
The 12-year-old boy is suspected to have ended his own life at Otunganga, a village in the Ohangwena region, on Saturday.
The boy was allegedly warned by his father to never use his phone again after he deleted the father’s WhatsApp service on his phone.
The boy took his life on communal land, according to a police weekend crime report.
The father followed his son’s footprints and realised that the boy did not go where he had instructed him to go.
“I’m not the one who deleted WhatsApp from daddy’s phone,” the boy wrote in the sand not far from where he was found dead.
The suspected suicide of the boy follows on the death of a 13-year-old boy, Mekondjo Katundu, who allegedly took his own life in Windhoek 10 days ago.
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