10-year-old commits suicide in front of home

A 10-year-old Saudi boy committed a suicide by hanging himself by a tree just outside his house in the Gulf Kingdom, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

‘Sabq’ Arabic language daily quoted police as saying they were investigating the causes that led the child to end his life.

It said police ruled out criminal act after finding the boy hanging by a rope wrapped around his beck and tried to a branch of the tree behind his house in the southwestern town of Abu Arish.