14 year old girl jumps off eighth floor, neighbour records video
14 year old girl jumps off eighth floor, neighbour records video A 14-year-old girl in Mumbai committed suicide by jumping off the eighth floor of the building while a neighbour recorded the video of the falling girl on Thursday evening. The teenager, a student of Class 9, has been identified as Harshika Dhirendra Mayavashi. She lived in the fifth floor of Gardenia Cooperative Housing Society in Kandivali's Thakur village. At around 6.30 pm on Thursday, when a few neighbours noticed Harshika standing on the parapet of the eighth floor of the housing complex, they tried to stop her, an official said. "When she fell to the ground, people immediately took her to a hospital where she was declared brought dead," an official statement said. The video shot from what appears to be a window, shows the girl - wearing a white t-shirt and a pair of black pants - standing on the parapet. She then balances herself, waits for a few moments before jumping. "The motive behind the suicide is yet to be ascertained and we are making inquiring with her relatives and friends in this connection. We will also examine her mobile phone and other gadgets," the official said. -PTC News
