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flag A 16-year-old South African girl died by suicide after alleging sexual assault; her father reported searching for the attacker, and a subsequent shooting left him and a neighbor injured.

flag A 16-year-old girl in Mbombela, South Africa, died by suicide after telling her father she had been sexually assaulted. flag Her father, Themba Gama, reported searching the neighborhood for the alleged attacker before returning to find her dead. flag He has requested a post-mortem and expressed confusion over her prior warnings about a harasser. flag Later, a violent altercation involving members of his late wife’s family left Gama and a neighbor injured after a local councillor allegedly fired a gun. flag The councillor was arrested on two counts of attempted murder and for possessing an unlicensed firearm. flag Authorities have opened an inquest into the girl’s death. flag The incident occurred the day before a national protest against gender-based violence, which honored the 15 lives lost daily to such violence in South Africa. flag Support resources are available through national crisis helplines.

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