一名16岁的南非女孩在声称遭到性攻击后自杀死亡;她父亲报告说,她父亲在寻找袭击者,随后遭到枪击,他和一名邻居受伤。 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.

南非Mbombela的一名16岁女孩在对父亲说自己遭到性攻击后自杀死亡。 A 16-year-old girl in Mbombela, South Africa, died by suicide after telling her father she had been sexually assaulted. 她的父亲Themba Gama报告说,在返回寻找她死亡之前,她先在附近寻找据称袭击者。 Her father, Themba Gama, reported searching the neighborhood for the alleged attacker before returning to find her dead. 他要求验尸,并对她先前关于一名骚扰者的警告表示困惑。 He has requested a post-mortem and expressed confusion over her prior warnings about a harasser. 后来,在一名地方议员据称开枪后,涉及他已故妻子家人的激烈争吵使Gama和一位邻居受伤。 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. 该议员因两项谋杀未遂罪和持有无许可证火器罪被逮捕。 The councillor was arrested on two counts of attempted murder and for possessing an unlicensed firearm. 当局已对该女孩的死亡展开调查。 Authorities have opened an inquest into the girl’s death. 事件发生在对基于性别的暴力进行全国抗议的前一天,这次抗议纪念了南非每天因这种暴力而丧生的15人。 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. 可通过国家危机求助热线获得支持资源。 Support resources are available through national crisis helplines.