Seven suicides this year [1]
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 - 18:30. Updated on Monday, September 9, 2013 - 18:40.
SUICIDES in Tonga have reached to seven this year, after a 36-year-old man was found dead at Fangaloto on Friday, August 6.
Deputy Police Commander Taniela Faletau said on August 10 that an inquest on August 9 had determined that the victim took his own life by hanging.
This now brings the number of suicides between January and August, 2010 to seven, which is the same number of suicides recorded last year for the same duration.
Charged with attempt
In another incident, the police have charged a 19-year-old boy from Ha'avakatolo with attempting to commit suicide on Monday, August 2, 2010. He will appear at the Magistrate's Court at Nukunuku on Thursday, August 12.
Child run over
At the same time police are investigating the death of a girl aged one year eight months who died after being run over by a vehicle that was reversing on the home driveway on Monday August 9.
He said police were investigating into the matter before taking further action.