/ 3 January 2001

TEEN COMMITS SUICIDE OVER MISSED SHOW

A KENYAN teenager killed herself on New Year’s Eve when her parents refused to allow her to attend a performance by Jamaican pop star Shaggy, according to reports. Nation FM radio station said the teenager, a resident of the western Nairobi suburb of Kangemi, took an overdose of anti-malaria tablets and died on the way to hospital. Orville Richard Burell, alias Shaggy, is on a Kenyan tour. AFP

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