Irkutsk schoolboy commits suicide after failing exam

In the Irkutsk region, a schoolboy committed suicide because he failed an exam.

On Wednesday, the body of a 16-year-old teenager was found in the barn of one of the houses in the village of Kazachinskoye in the Irkutsk region, the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported .

According to preliminary data, the young man committed suicide - he hanged himself, senior assistant to the head of the regional department of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Salovarov told Interfax .

A rope and a suicide note were recovered from the scene of the incident and sent for examination.

According to Salovarov, the cause of the child’s suicide may have been a poorly passed exam. “At home, he promised his parents to improve and, according to them, he was calm. But then his body was found in the barn,” said a representative of the Investigative Committee.

An inspection is underway.