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Family Says 10 Year Old's Death Accidental, Not Suicide
posted (August 31, 2012)
Did a ten year old girl in San Lazaro village commit suicide? That's what the police report says - but according to CTV-3 news in Orange Walk it's more likely an accident that caused Rosana Telles's death.

She was found yesterday morning at 11:25 hanging from a nylon rope tied to an Almond tree outside her home. But, the rope was really an improvised swing - that had been hanging in a u shape from the tree for some time. Her family believes that the child was playing on it and somehow got her head twisted in it.

They found her with her jaw on the rope - and she was still alive. When they took her into the house she started to vomit and then expired.

A post mortem is expected to confirm whether it was accidental or incidental. That examination hasn't been performed yet.

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