School death fall boy suicide probe (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, October 20 - Rome prosecutors have opened a probe into instigation to suicide in the case of a boy who threw himself into the stairwell of a Rome school Friday, judicial sources said. They said the "torment" of the boy was immediately apparent to investigators. The 13-year-old boy leapt to his death down a stairwell at the Santa Maria school in the central Via Tasso.
    Emergency services arrived on the scene to find the pupil in a critical condition.
    He died soon after.
    Investigators found a note that confirms the intention to commit suicide, sources said.
    Other students said the boy said "ciao everyone" and then jumped.