WhatsApp tragedy as girl, 13, kills herself when friends remove her

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A 13-year-old girl has tragically killed herself after being removed from a group chat on WhatsApp with her schoolmates. Sofia Sportelli from Monopoli, Italy, who took her own life on November 20 when she locked herself in the bathroom while her parents were absent from the family home and hanged herself. Her mother found the girl still clutching her mobile phone in her hands.

Emergency services rushed to the scene and tried everything possible to revive her, but tragically she couldn’t be saved.

The Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carry out domestic and foreign policing duties, have opened an investigation into her death.

They will likely search through the memory of the 13-year-old’s smartphone for clues and tosee if she may have been a victim of bullying, according to local media reports.

The Carabinieri will also reportedly analyse the social networks that the girl used and the chats associated with them.

“It was just a joke” were the first words of some friends of the young girl when they were asked to give an account of why the teenager had been excluded from a chat room and had not turned up for her Sunday afternoon appointment at home.

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Additional reporting by Maria Ortega.

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