HONG KONG — A 13-year-old schoolboy sent a suicide note to his parents by mobile phone text message before leaping to his death from a Hong Kong high-rise flat, a news report said yesterday.
Chan Wai-lok, who jumped from his family’s 14th-floor flat early on Tuesday morning, wrote in the message, “Goodbye, daddy and mummy. Mum, don’t play mahjong again,” the South China Morning Post reported.
No explicit reason was given for his suicide in the note, the newspaper said. Mahjong is a hugely popular Chinese dominoes-style game played mostly by Hong Kong women for modest wagers. — dpa