“Usama is a very active boy, he is a member of the local Boys Scouts Team”, said Salma Ali, the social worker at Usama’s school, Zahrat Almada’en. “He is a polite and very friendly young man; we were all very astonished by the terrible news”. Some said they tried belts, some tried fishing ropes, and some even went for their mother’s hijabs (scarves). Zuhra Elkekly, Usama’s mother, is asking all parents to watch their children for suicidal signs “My son and his brother were re-acting a television scene. The family also thinks Usama might have been motivated by the death of his older brother’s friend recently, who also hanged himself under dark circumstances in Tripoli, Libya.

Source: Libya Observer December 27, 2019 19:07 UTC