In 2017 alone, twelve adolescent asylum seekers committed suicide, according to a survey by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm conducted on behalf of the National Board of Health. By contrast, the figure was below ten in 2016, with no registered suicide cases within the group in 2015.
All the asylum seekers who took their lives in 2017 were boys and men under the age of 21. Almost all of them came from Afghanistan and had applied for a residence permit in 2015.Most of them were going through the asylum process, with some of them already having been rejected. However, there were also those who had been granted the residence permit. According to the report, suicide was the leading cause of death among unaccompanied children and adolescents.
Source: Sputniknews
