Chennai: Five girls, all aged 11, consumed poison in an attempt to end their lives in Villupuram. They were saved after they were taken to hospital on time.
The girls, said to be close friends, were upset after a boy wrote inappropriate things about them in a paper and stuck them on the school wall.
The girls and the boy study in a government boarding school. The girls from Arasampattu were identified as Durga (12), Menaka (12), Jayanthi (11), Gopika (11) and Nivedha (11).
They were found in an unconscious state in the school yesterday and were rushed to Kallakurichi Government Hospital and later taken to a hospital in Mundiyampakkam.
It is said that the girls had consumed rat poison after they were distressed over what the boy had done. Later, they consumed Arali. Villupuram Police are conducting an inquiry into the case.