KUCHING (Bernama): Sarawak swimmer Ayrton Lim was found dead at his family home in Tabuan Laru here on Thursday (Oct 24).

The 19-year-old was found unconscious by his mother, who then informed the police at about 12.30pm.

Kuching district police chief ACP Awang Din Awang Gani said Ayrton was pronounced dead by medical officers from the Sarawak General Hospital who went to the house.

"According to his mother, he had been in a state of depression the past three days, ” he said.

Police have classified the case as sudden death after preliminary investigations showed that there were no criminal elements involved.

Later, See Hua Daily News reported that the swimmer hanged himself and was facing relationship related problems. It was also found that on Thursday, Lim posted a cryptic Instagram story stating "It has been a wonderful 19 years and I'm grateful if you're part of it (a smiley and a heart emoji), Thank You."

Ayrton had represented Sarawak at the Malaysia Games and is said to have returned from training in Singapore recently. – Bernama


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Taken entirely from Heidi Quah I witnessed a suicide case today.
 I am completely shattered and heartbroken and traumatized.
 She lived in Gombak and I met her on the streets a few weeks ago.
 Went over to convince her to move into RFTR's office temporarily till things got better. She had a fall out with her husband, her husband was abusive and left her severely scarred, hugely in debt and extremely traumatized.
 He left with another woman and she was forced to fend for herself and her 4 kids. Her eldest child is currently 21 years old and forced to be both mom and dad to her siblings, 17, 10 and 3 years old.

Today, she committed suicide. She jumped off the building - right as I was visiting. As I was leaving. After we took this picture.
After she smiled for the picture. She walked me to the door. Then as I turned my back to head down the stairs. She climbed on the corridoor cliff and jumped.

Her children witnessed it all. It was a sudden, desperate jump. The screams and wails were sharp and piercing and it's still ringing in my ears now. I am still pretty shaken and traumatized.
I can't imagine how her children must be feeling. They are stateless and undocumented and don't have any other relatives. When I met her - she was pleading and crying and struggling so bad - telling me that she can no longer go on. The pain and the anxiety and not being able to support the family any more. I rarely ever do this but I feel I really need to this time. Trying to raise RM5500 for a really simple funeral for the lady and to support the family for a couple of months. (Update : targetted amount reached within 24 hours)

Taken entirely from www.washingtonpost.com
SEOUL — Leading South Korean K-pop singer and actress Sulli was found dead in her house south of the capital on Monday in what police said may have been suicide.

The 25-year-old started her career as a child actress in 2005 and later joined a girl group as a teenager, before announcing she was quitting the entertainment industry in 2014. She said then that she was mentally and physically exhausted after suffering from malicious comments and false rumors online. She formally left her band the following year to resume an acting career.
Last year, she took the rare step of speaking out about her mental health issues, saying she had suffered from panic disorder since she was young and also had social phobia.

If she is found to have taken her own life, it would highlight the huge pressures on K-pop stars exerted by exploitative management companies and demanding fans and the lack of mental health support. The star, whose legal name is Choi Jin-ri, was found dead by her agent on Monday afternoon in a two-story house in Seongnam.
A note believed to have been written by Choi has been found at the house, which described her state of mind but was not a suicide note, according to the police.
“Choi seemed to have lived alone in the house, and no signs of a struggle or forced entry has been identified to suggest homicide,” said Kim Seong-taek of Seongnam Sujeong Police Department. But Kim said police had not concluded it was definitely a suicide and continued to investigate the case.

Sulli challenged the notions on how a female Kpop star should behave, but she suffered massively as a result.
She was viciously attacked online in 2014 after paparazzi photos revealed she was dating an older rapper. In a rare move, she later publicly acknowledged the couple’s relationship. K-pop stars usually face pressure not to date because it can disillusion their fans and undermine their career.
She would also often appear without a bra, saying she felt more comfortable without one, something that some Korean women found liberating but others savagely criticized.

In June, she became a co-host of a TV show entitled “The Night of Hate Comments,” in which celebrity guests discussed their reactions to hateful comments, malicious rumors and cyberbullying.
Yonhap news agency said Choi had suffered criticism and drawn support for what it called her “bold and carefree character.”

“Even close people left me,” Choi said in an Instagram video posted last year. “I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.”

Taken entirely from BBC website.
BBC journalist Hanna Yusuf, whose recent work included an investigation into working conditions at Costa Coffee stores, has died aged 27.

The BBC's Fran Unsworth, director of news, said Hanna was a "talented young journalist who was widely admired" and her death was "terrible news".
Her family said they were "deeply saddened and heartbroken" and hoped her legacy "would serve as an inspiration".

She wrote for the BBC News website, and had also worked as a TV news producer.
Hanna spoke six languages, including Somali and Arabic, and worked with, among others, whistleblowers and victims of serious crime.
In 2018, she spoke to Zaynab Hussein, a mother of nine who moved to Leicester in 2003 after escaping violence and instability in Somalia. She told Hanna about the hate crime that left her with life-changing injuries after she was repeatedly run over by a 21-year-old stranger in the street.

Hanna's article about Costa Coffee working conditions revealed employees' complaints alleging managers' refusal to pay for sickness or annual leave, working outside of contracted hours and the retention of tips.
A Costa Coffee spokeswoman said in August that an independent audit had been launched "given the serious nature of the allegations".
Last year she also wrote about why some homeless people chose the streets over emergency shelter despite sub-zero temperatures.

Hanna also covered the story of Shamima Begum, who fled the UK as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join the Islamic State group in Syria.
While working for the BBC News Channel earlier this year, she broke the story that Ms Begum's family had told Sajid Javid, the home secretary at the time, that they were going to challenge his decision to revoke her UK citizenship.
And later, she successfully secured an interview with Ms Begum's lawyer, who accused UK authorities of failing to protect her from being groomed by IS.
Hanna started at the BBC as a researcher on the News at Six and Ten in May 2017, before moving to the BBC News Channel and News at One and the website.

Before joining the BBC, Hanna wrote for publications including the Guardian, the Independent, the Times, the Muslim News, the Pool and Grazia Magazine.In 2015, she created a video for the Guardian about her decision to wear the hijab at the time, saying "it has nothing to do with oppression. It's a feminist statement", which was picked up by other websites including Teen Vogue and Everyday Feminism.

Appearing on Good Morning Britain after the European Court of Justice's 2017 ruling gave employers the power to ban all political, religious and philosophical symbols at work, Hanna told TV presenters Piers Morgan and Susannah Reid it would "disproportionately affect Muslim women".
Born in Somalia in 1992, she received a Scott Trust bursary to do an MA in newspaper journalism at City, University of London in 2017, following her degree at Queen Mary, University of London.

In a statement, Hanna's family said the death of their "beloved daughter, sister and niece" had come as a shock and asked for privacy.