A Chinese commits suicide after losing thousands of yuan in gambling
/A Chinese student has taken his own life after losing 20,000 yuan (2,400 euros, $ 3,300) in the World Cup betting Brazil, as recorded by the local press.
He was identified as Lin, a young student at a university in southern China, who jumped from the seventh floor of a building of its campus on Monday, the newspaper Shibao Xinxi reported.
"He spoke about ten minutes on the phone and I heard him plead," Do not oblige me, give me two more days to pay you. " Then he hung up and I saw him get up quickly and disappeared", assured a witness to the same newspapper.
Lin was immediately taken to hospital in the city of Panyu in Guangdong, but could not do anything to save his life.
"He had borrowed a lot of money (to bet) with a very high interest", said a friend of Lin, who estimated he had lost about 20,000 yuan (2,400 euros) betting on several World Cup matches.
Although the selection of China does not participate in the competition, there are millions of football fans addicted to betting. In fact, only the state-controlled betting have reached this weekend's four billion yuan (477 million euros).