Boy Commits Suicide for Mobile Phone

September 15, 2001 - 0:0
KIEV A Ukrainian teenager jumped from a fourth floor window after his mother refused to buy him a mobile phone, Reuter reported. The 13-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in the capital Kiev with serious head injuries. His condition remains critical, Ukraine's forum Internet News Agency quoted police as saying. Ukraine, a former Soviet Republic, ranks among Europe's poorest countries but its mobile phone market is expanding rapidly with heavy demand from status-conscious teenagers.