Student Commits Suicide After Losing $3000 USD In World Cup Gamble

He gambled with money borrowed from loan sharks and committed suicide after losing it to World Cup bets

Published: 26.06.2014
Kukogho Iruesiri Samson

Failed gambling led him to suicide

A second-year college student has died after jumping from the 7th story of high rise building in his school following heavy losses in World Cup gambling.

The student who, simply identified his surname Lin in news reports, committed suicide after losing a big bet, reportedly over$3000 USD.

A Debt And A Death

A witness who spoke with Information Times said the student might have committed suicide after pressure from loan sharks.

"I heard him say 'do not force me' and 'give me two more days and I'll return you the money'

"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," Information Times reported the witness as saying.

An online media quoting a classmate and friend of the deceased student reports that Lin had gambled nearly $7,000 US dollars on several students.

“We heard that he borrowed quite a lot of money and the interest rate was rather high,” another student quoted in the report said.

Deadly China Betting

Lin is now the second Chinese to die in World Cup related circumstances after a 51-year-old former footballer, Li Mingqiang, died of 'over-excitement' while watching the Spain-Netherlands match which ended 5-1 in favor of the Orange boys.

China has become the World's gambling capital and just last week, police in Hong busted an illegal World Cup betting ring which raked in an astonishing $600 million USD in one week - an all-time record.

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Ewe have got to be kidding! The 'puppy' born to a SHEEP

By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 19:29 GMT, 25 March 2011

Vets say it’s impossible - but to Chinese farmer Liu Naiying his birth is a miracle.
For Mr Liu insists one of his sheep has given birth to a dog
The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but its mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail look more like a dog's.

'Miracle': The sheep/dog and the ewe that allegedly gave birth to him in Shaanxi Province, China

His 'sheep dog' even plays like a hound.
The birth has prompted thousands to flock to his farm in Shaanxi Province to see for themselves.
Mr Liu told how he found the unusual baby animal shortly after it was born in one of his fields.
‘I was herding the sheep, and saw a sheep licking her newborn lamb on the grassland. The lamb was still wet,’ he said.
‘When I went up close to check on the lamb I was shocked because it looked so weird, like a cross between a sheep and a dog.

Strange: The 'puppy' has wool like a lamb but it's mouth, nose, eyes, paws and tail look more like a dog's

‘I was a bit frightened, as I've been raising sheep for 20 years and had never seen such a creature.’
Yue Guozhang, a researcher at Xi'an City Animal Husbandry Technology Centre, said sheep and dogs were different species.
‘It's not possible that a sheep could become pregnant with a puppy,’ he said. ‘It's likely that this is just an abnormal lamb.’

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