Suicide as a young man in Bogotá would have been due to problems at work, according to relatives

In the early hours of this Thursday, November 5, a 22-year-old young man who according to witnesses was going to work on a bicycle stopped at the bridge that is located on 21 Angeles station and jumped into the exclusive TransMilenio lane, ending his life. The brother of the deceased gave details of what would have motivated his relative to make this unfortunate decision.

The Ministry of Health confirmed that when the ambulance arrived to attend to the case, it found the man dead, apparently the product of a strong blow to the skull. “He presents severe cranioencephalic trauma, abundant bleeding, wound in the occipital region, bilateral otorrhagia, non-reactive mydriatic pupils, deformity in the right arm and right leg”, he indicated in his report.

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The Bogotá Alert station explained that the victim was going to his workplace in the Rincón neighborhood in Suba, “But when he was crossing the bridge, he parked the bike on the side of the road at around 5:00 am, climbed to the top of the structure and dropped against the asphalt of the exclusive lane to die when hitting hard on the head and also affect the right arm and leg “.

Criminalistics agents from the CTI Technical Investigation Corps of the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation arrived at the site, which carried out the inspection and transfer of the mortal remains to the Legal Medicine headquarters.

The testimony of the brother of the deceased young man

The older brother of the young man who jumped off the bridge told the station La Cariñosa 610 AM by RCN Radio that for days the boy looked sad because of so much “camel”, to the point that he told his relatives that he was going to resign because he only had time to sleep for a while and that had him very overwhelmed.

He also stated on the news Bogota Alert, that this morning before leaving for his job as manager of a grocery store, which is open from Sunday to Sunday, “he made a look at his mother as if he were saying goodbye to her.”

The remains of the victim will be delivered in the next few hours to his relatives at the district morgue.

Figures on suicide

According to Legal Medicine, between January and August of this year, in the country’s capital, 204 suicide cases were registered. While at the national level, the figure climbed to 1,531 cases.

The age group most affected is between 20 and 24 years with 222 deaths by suicide; followed by the population between 25 and 29 years old with 173 cases.

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In the Colombian territory, men are the main vIpatients, with 1,236 cases compared to 295 women.

If they present thoughts or ideas of self-harm in the last month or act of self-harm in the last year, serious emotional disturbances, hopelessness, agitation or extreme violence, remember to contact line 106 of the Ministry of Health.