Tuesday, August 2, 2011

South Africa: Mystery over Somali girl’s ‘suicide’

QUESTIONS surround the death of a 10-year-old Somali girl whose body was found hanging from her family’s washing line in Blikkiesdorp.

While there have been claims of suicide, Binti Ebrahim’s grieving family said yesterday they believed she had been murdered.

Sitting on a bed in a small corrugated shack, her mother, Amina Ahmed Ali, wept as she relived the ordeal.

She said Binti had left the house around 10am on Friday, saying she was going to fetch water a few metres away, but she never returned.

When Ali started to worry, she sent Binti’s brother to look for her. The boy later found her body with her shirt tied around her neck. She had blood and scratches on her face, Ali said.


Binti’s father, Ebrahim Sidow Osman, was at work when he heard the news.

“(Binti) brought me breakfast before I went to work. The next thing, she was hanging in front of our home,” he said.


Police spokesman FC van Wyk said anyone with information should come forward.

Source: Independent Cadet News Agency

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