Indian-American Teen Jumps Off Golden Gate Bridge In San Francisco, Dies

The incident is a fourth one involving an Indian American jumping off the Golden Bridge in an apparent suicide attempt, community leader Ajay Jain Bhutoria was quoted as saying by PTI.

An Indian-American teen died after jumping off Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (Representational Image)

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An Indian American teenager reportedly died after jumping off the famous Golden Gate Bridge in United States’ San Francisco, said his parents and the officials of the US Coast Guards, reported news agency PTI. 

As per the report, a bicycle, a phone, and a bag belonging to the 16-year-old boy were found on the bridge. The twelfth grader is believed to have jumped off the bridge at around 4.58 pm on Tuesday, they said.

The coastal guards said they immediately carried out a two-hour search and rescue operation after they confirmed they saw “a human” jumping from the bridge.

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There is little reason to believe that the boy is alive, they said.

The incident is a fourth one involving an Indian American jumping off the Golden Bridge in an apparent suicide attempt, community leader Ajay Jain Bhutoria was quoted as saying.

According to Bridge Rail Foundation, a non-profit organisation that works towards ending suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge, 25 people ended their lives here last year and nearly 2,000 suicide cases have been reported since the bridge opened in 1937.

The state government is working to create a 20-foot-wide iron mesh on both sides of the 1.7-mile bridge. However, the project that was scheduled to be completed by January this year is running behind schedule and its construction cost has jumped from €137.26 million to nearly €386.64 million. Work on this project started in 2018. 

On June 18, 2022, an Indian American IT professional died by suicide by shooting himself while his wife and two minor sons were also found shot dead inside their home in the US state of Iowa, the news agency had reported earlier. 

The West Des Moines Police Department, which was probing the case, had come to this conclusion after forensic autopsies were conducted. 

The bodies of Chandrasekhar Sunkara, 44, Lavanya Sunkara, 41, their 14-year-old son Prabhas Sunkara and 11-year-old son Suhas Sunkara were found inside their home, as per the report.