first suicide

UT Student Jumps To Death From Parking Garage Near Campus

Austinist  Mon, 10/12/2009 - 10:40pm

Steve HopsonMoments after texting a colleague that he was about to "end it all," a student at UT leaped to his death from the seventh floor of a parking garage at 25th and Nueces earlier this afternoon.



 

Firsthand account of a tragic event

CNN - Exchange Notebook  Wed, 10/03/2007 - 8:40am

This Tuesday we received some images that really took our breath away. An I-Reporter from Afghanistan, sent us a set of photos that he took only moments after a suicide bomber blew up a bus in western Kabul.

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Samimi, a 23-year-old secretary, was on his way to work when he saw the blast. The explosion claimed the lives of 10 people, including civilians, policemen and four children.