A 19-year-old man in Tashkent allegedly hanged himself over gambling

Earlier, reports circulated on social media that he had lost a large amount of money online gambling and had committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree.

"Qalampir.uz" writes, citing Hayot Shamsutdinov, the press secretary of the Prosecutor General's Office, that the incident occurred in the Yashnabad district of the capital. According to pre-investigation inspection documents, on May 31 of this year, the body of a young man named F.O., born in 2006 and living in the Akoltin district of the Syrdarya region, was found hanging from a rope on a tree on Istiqlol Street in the M.Riyoziy neighborhood of the district.

The scene of the incident was examined by an operational-investigation team and a forensic examination was ordered.