A 16-year-old Chinese boy studying in Singapore fell to his death from a hostel room after jumping up and down on his bed while playing a guitar, the Sunday Times reported.
Li Xiao Meng, a private-school student from Beijing, was with his roommate Wang Bing Yi, also 16, in their third-floor room on Thursday night when the freak incident happened. Li’s bed was right next to an open window.
”We were in the room and he was playing the guitar. He got excited and started jumping on the bed and continued playing at the same time,” the newspaper quoted Wang as saying.
”Then I turned my back for a while and the next thing I heard was a loud bang and he’s not on the bed anymore.”
The Singapore police classified the incident as an ”unnatural death” requiring further investigation, but another friend said Li was prone to jumping on his bed while playing his guitar, the report said.
His remains were cremated and the ashes brought back home by his parents.
Singapore is a popular overseas education centre for Chinese youths. The brightest students are offered scholarships or even citizenship by the Southeast Asian city-state, whose population is 76% ethnic Chinese. – Sapa-AFP