Questions remain over why two pupils jumped from the second floor of a building at a private school in Johannesburg this week.
A 14-year-old grade 8 pupil, whose name is known to TimesLIVE, died after jumping off a building at St Teresa’s School while the second pupil was injured.While the school did not provide specific details of the incident, it confirmed in a statement on Thursday that the preliminary findings of an independent investigation it commissioned suggest the injuries were self-inflicted.
TimesLIVE has also established that the pupil who survived the incident has since been discharged from hospital. “It’s tragic, it’s extremely sad and there are no words really to describe how we are all feeling. She was a stunning kid and had a great group of friends.”“We don’t actually know what happened.”
“It’s quite a close community. They play hockey against one another and sport. We did grade interventions particularly with our grade 8s and 9s. They just seemed to be really, really affected.”St Teresa’s said in the statement it was “an incredibly serious matter and we are treating it with utmost importance”.
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