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Updated | 9-y-o suspected to have committed suicide in St Catherine

Published:Friday | March 3, 2023 | 9:56 PM
The police have not released any further information on the incident that occurred sometime Friday afternoon. - File photo

The St Catherine South police are treating the death of a nine-year-old boy from the Zambia community in Central Village as a case of suspected suicide.

The police have not released any further information on the incident that occurred sometime Friday afternoon.

They say investigations are continuing.

- Ruddy Mathison

Note: In a previous version of this story, the police had incorrectly identified the sex of the deceased. We regret the error. 

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