Nine students commit suicide after exam results in India

Monitoring Desk

NEW DELHI: Nine students committed suicide after the results of grades 11 and 12 were announced in India on Saturday.

According to the Indian media, as many as one million students appeared for the exam and nine cases of suicide were reported within 48 hours after the announcement of result by the Andhra Pradesh Board of Intermediate Examination on Wednesday.

As per the announced result, only 61% students passed the exam in grade 11 while 72% in grade 12.

According to the reports, a 17-year-old student B Tarun hailing from the Srikakulam district killed himself by jumping in front of a running train. Another student from Dandu Gopalapuram in the intermediate first year was “disheartened” after he failed most of the papers.

A 16-year-old female student, A Akhilasree, also killed herself as she was reportedly upset after failing some subjects in the first year of the intermediate. Another 17-year-old girl Anusha died by jumping into a lake while a boy in the same district killed himself by consuming pesticide.

Another teenager B Jagadeesh, who was reportedly depressed for having low marks in intermediate, died by hanging himself.

Following the depressing incident, police and psychologists urged the students to avoid taking such extreme steps as they have their entire lives ahead of them and can change their failures into success.