Student's death raises alarm over school violence in Vietnam

File picture of students of Thai Lao High School participating in an extracurricular activity in Hung Nguyen District in the central province of Nghe An. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): “Mummy, I’m afraid to go to school.” These are the heart-breaking words released after a female student at Vinh University's High School for the Gifted in the central province of Nghe An killed herself, allegedly due to school violence, on April 15.

Previously, there were many times she told her mother that she did not want to go to class because she was afraid and her classmates beat her.