'Would the girl still be alive today if the majority of netizens on her Instagram account discouraged her from taking her own life?' he said in a statement.
"We are conducting a post-mortem to determine whether there were other factors in her death," he said, adding that the girl had a history of depression.Malaysian police are investigating the case of a teenager believed to have jumped to her death after asking her social media followers to vote on whether she should kill herself.
The 16-year-old girl, who was not named, had run a poll on photo-sharing app Instagram with the question"Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L", hours before jumping off the roof of a building in Sarawak, on Malaysia's east, on Monday, district police chief Aidil Bolhassan told Reuters. The 'D/L' meant 'Death/Life', and the poll had showed 69% of the girl's followers chose 'D', he said.
"We are conducting a post-mortem to determine whether there were other factors in her death," he said, adding that the girl had a history of depression. Instagram reviewed the teenager's account and found that the online poll, which ran over a 24-hour period, ended with 88% percent votes for 'L', the company's Malaysia spokeswoman, Serena Siew, told Reuters.
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