The two women were taken to hospital with serious injuries and died shortly afterwards. The police have opened an investigation.
A 17-year-old high school girl jumped from a shopping mall in Yokohama, Japan on August 31, killing a 32-year-old woman walking below, Japanese media outlet NHK reported.
The student threw herself from the twelfth floor of the building in this busy shopping district, hitting the second victim who was out with three friends, the police said. Japan Times. Seriously injured, the two women were quickly taken to hospital, and died a few hours after their arrival.
Similar drama in 2020
According to NHK, the teenager was from the city of Kimitsu, located south of Tokyo, and the passerby was an office worker who worked in Yokohama. An investigation has been opened by the police, and investigations are underway to try to better understand the circumstances of this tragedy.
A similar incident occurred in 2020 in Yokohama, adds the British radio. BBC A 17-year-old boy jumped from the roof of a shopping mall in Osaka, killing a 19-year-old student. The boy was posthumously charged with involuntary manslaughter at the time, with his family owing compensation to the family of the victim he killed. The charges were eventually dropped.
In 2023, 514 minors committed suicide in Japan, a country plagued by bullying at school. “school problems” et «the fear of failure” are put forward as the most frequent cause of these tragedies. These suicides are mainly concentrated around the back-to-school period, and are the leading cause of death for this age group in the country.
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