Laxmi Kunwar, 18, killed herself by hanging inside her room Wednesday morning after the results were published at Prakash Higher Secondary School on Tuesday. Only 87 students out of 113 had passed the exams. [break]
Her father Tek Bahadur said Laxmi didn´t take the dinner after returning home after she knew the results at the school. “She was exteremely sad and worried at failing the exams and I had consoled her saying that it´s normal to fail in exams,” Tek Bahadur, who is also the president of the management committee of a local Hansa Bahini Primary School, said.
“I used to counsel other children in the village but my counseling didn´t work for my own daughter,” the distraught father added. District Police Office, Myagdi, said Laxmi killed herself at around 8 a.m.
“She had herself come to know the results. I consoled her not to be depressed by the failure and sent her home saying she would definitely pass the exam next year,” recalled Daya Sagar Sharma, a teacher, at the school. “She had returned vowing to study hard and now this tragedy happened,” Sharma added.
Her colleagues are also shocked with the news. “She was extremely disappointed with the result and I had asked her not to worry. I did not imagine that she could commit suicide,” said her classmate Usha GC.
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