Chinese student leaps to his death after heavy World Cup gambling losses
Second-year student jumped from seventh floor of campus building after distraught phone call, according to witness
A college student in China leaped to his death after losing more than US$3,000 by gambling on the World Cup, state media said today.
The second-year student, identified only by his surname Lin, jumped from the seventh floor of a building on his campus yesterday, a witness told the Information Times.
“I heard him say, 'Do not force me’ and ’Give me two more days and I’ll return you the money’,” the report quoted the witness as saying.
“He talked on the phone for more than 10 minutes. I saw him hang up and stand up and then all in a sudden he just disappeared,” she said.
Lin was rushed to hospital in Panyu in the southern province of Guangdong, but doctors were not able to revive him, the newspaper said.
Another student described as a classmate of Lin’s said the gambler had lost nearly 20,000 yuan (HK$25,100) in bets on several World Cup games, it said.
“We heard that he borrowed quite a lot of money and the interest rate was rather high,” said the student, according to the report.