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Thailand’s junior figure and speed skating star Amarit Lohasirichai reportedly jumped to his death on Sunday night from the 10th storey of a building in Bangkok’s Bang Rak district.

Thais tend to have higher stress, especially during the latest Covid-19 wave, while the suicide risk rate has risen 10 times compared to last year, the Department of Mental Health (DMH) said on Wednesday.

A 42-year-old wife of a police officer tragically shot her 14-year-old daughter in the head before jumping to her death from the fourth storey of police flats in Rayongs Klaeng district on Thursday morning.

Nearly half of suicides related to being overworked occurred less than a week after the person suffered from depression or other mood disorders, according to a labor ministry analysis.

A woman, who tested positive for Covid-19, allegedly jumped to her death from a seven-storey apartment building on Monday night in Bangkok’s Bang Kapi area.

A 26-year-old man jumped to his death from Bhumibol 2 Bridge in Samut Prakan province on Tuesday. His wife suspected the suicide stemmed from anxiety caused by a financial crisis after he was previously infected with Covid-19.

A Japanese man who apparently jumped to his death from his 11th floor condominium in Bangkok on Thursday had contracted Covid-19, police said on Friday.

A 19-year-old Khon Kaen university student jumped to her death from a bridge in the neighbouring province of Kalasin on Thursday evening.

A distraught woman with her three-year-old son in her arms was spotted standing on the edge of Nuan Chawee Bridge in Pathum Thani on Wednesday. It looked like she was getting ready to jump.

Nonthaburi police were alerted of a suicide at a condo in Bang Bua Thong district at around noon on Thursday and arrived to find the body of 73-year-old Chao Singto hanging from a window.

Thai Health Promotion Foundation launched the “Vaccine Jai” campaign on Tuesday in a bid to cut down on Covid-19 related suicides.

A nurse in Nakhon Pathom jumped to her death on Monday morning, leaving behind her three-month-old baby.