A 23-year-old student has allegedly committed suicide by throwing herself into the Victoria Falls in Livingstone.
Carol Kanyembo of house number 172, Dambwa North Extension allegedly committed suicide on Friday evening on grounds that she was a disappointment to her parents as a result of her poor performance at a tertiary institution in Namibia.
A few days before Ms Kanyembo took her life, she sent text messages to her close friends that she would take her own life because her parents were disappointed with her performance at college.
Southern Province deputy police chief, Milner Muyambango, who confirmed the incident in an interview yesterday, said the deceased was last seen at Victoria Falls grounds on Friday around 18:00 hours.
“She was last seen on April 25, this year, at the Victoria Falls at around 18:00 hours and it is believed that she threw herself into the
Victoria Falls,” Mr Muyambango said.
He said the suicide thought arose from the fact that she earlier wrote some short message services (SMS) to her friends indicating that she would take her life because she was a disgrace to her parents who tried their best to ensure she attained better education.
Mr Muyambango said Ms Kanyembos’s parents were earlier paying for their daughter’s tuition fees at a tertiary institution in Botswana where she dropped out.
He said that Ms Kanyembo was later sent to another learning institution in the neighbouring Namibia where she was reported to have again dropped out.
“According to her friends, this situation mentally tortured her and she could have decided to take her own life,” Mr Muyambango said.
Sad news
she was so unfare 2 her parants and god wil never 4give her.
@mk the orignal.
she was so unfare 2 her parants and god wil never 4give her.How do you know that she will never be forgiven?you have just heard one side of the story.
leave the judgement upon Gods hands
Sad story indeed.
so sad, y wud she do that? Jst coz she thinks shez a disgrace?? No no no thats not right…………a man shall fall seven times en seven times he shall rise again! Failure is only wen one stops tryin..
She is just suspected to have committed suicide as no one has comfirmed her death. She may be alive and in hiding.
Yes maybe she is hidin..she will show up.
She could have come to Ndola so that I could marry her and give her the life she deserved.
I need a good woman.
change the title, it is assumed she threw herself in the falls going by your literature, some girls are crafty limbe she s just migrated to another country or better still search for the body till you find it,
The parents should have allowed her to repeat grade 10 and monitor her progress up to grade 12. Certainly they would have seen if she was worthy sending to Namibia or Botswana. Now see, what a worst of resources. You were sponsering a stiff necked dull girl.
So they haven’t even found her body yet? So why the conclusion that she threw herself in the Vic falls? We need facts and not assumptions ba tumfweko!
When you are a contant failure its admirable to commit the ultimate punishment and just end it.Kamakazi stlye just like samurai’s.
It’s so sad, finally the body has been retrieved.
Imwe ba tumfweko mwilabepa ilyashi lyabufi, she was learning ku namibia, ulya umukashana ali wapa UB(University of Botswana) elo her ticket said she had gone ku falls kuma 17hrs.
Imwe ba tumfweko mwilabepa ilyashi lyabufi, she wasn’t learning ku namibia, ulya umukashana ali wapa UB(University of Botswana) elo her ticket said she had gone ku falls kuma 17hrs.