Teenage girl appears at police station after reports she committed suicide
A vocational school student thought to have drowned after jumping off Sathorn Bridge early Tuesday morning turned up at a police station.
The 17-year-old girl told police she had no intention of committing suicide and that she fell into the Chao Phraya River because she was drunk.
It was reported that she jumped from Sathorn Bridge at about 2.45am after leaving her bag, her high-heel shoes and a flower garland on the sidewalk.
A witness told police he saw her refusing to take a lifebuoy throw to her by people fishing on the river bank under the bridge.
The girl told police she was about to drown but a barge passed and its crew pulled her out of the water.
She said she disembarked the barge at Samut Prakan’s Phra Pradaeng district.
She said she did not quarrel with her boyfriend, as speculated in the media, because she has no boyfriend and she has no problems in life.
“I was just drunk,” she told police.
Before the girl went to the police station to collect her belongings, police had planned to summon her relatives on Tuesday afternoon to find why she committed suicide.
Before leaving the police station, the girl smiled to cameras and flashed a victory sign.
