12-year-old girl found dead in Tashkent

A 12-year-old girl was found hanging in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district of Uzbekistan’s capital Tashkent, the General Prosecutor's Office reported.

On Monday (November 28), at about 17:24, the district police department received a message that a 7th-grade student of school No. 241 ‘committed suicide by hanging herself on a tree in the courtyard of her house on Oltintepa Street’.

Following preliminary data disclosed by the Yunusabad branch of the forensic medical examination on Tuesday (November 29), the death was the result of ‘mechanical asphyxia caused by squeezing the neck with a noose.’

At the moment, the Mirzo-Ulugbek district prosecutor's office is conducting a pre-investigation probe.