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US: Boy dies imitating Saddam

A 10 year-old boy accidentally killed himself imitating Saddam Hussein's hanging after watching the video clip on television, the Houston Chronicle reported on Thursday.

The boy tied a slipknot around his neck while on a bunk bed on New Year's eve, the paper reported.

The boy's mother told police that he watched a report on Saddam's death on the Spanish-language Telemundo news broadcast before the accident.

The boy was curious about Saddam, and asked an uncle who was taking care of him and other children about the execution, according to the Chronicle.

A while later one of the kids noticed the boy was missing, and the uncle found him dead in his room, according to the Chronicle.

In Pakistan, a nine year-old boy hanged himself from a ceiling fan on January 1 also trying to copy hanging scenes from Saddam's execution video.

The two-and-half minute film of Saddam's execution taken shot on a mobile telephone camera has spread like wildfire on the Internet.

Posted by: SoulRiser
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Posted in: News on January 5, 2007 @ 12:00 AM

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