Ashamed of failure, 12-yr-old in Mumbai hangs himself

Mumbai, January 05: A 12-year-old Sushant Patil — a seventh standard student of Shardashram School (Marathi medium) at Dadar chose to forget failure by ending his life.

The boy hanged himself with a nylon rope in a toilet in his school early on Monday morning.

He had failed in four papers out of six in the mid-term examinations, but had managed to hide the report card from his parents for a week.

—Agencies