Egyptian mass media said that three girls under the age of 16 were collectively suicide using poisonous pills in Sharkia province one of the Egyptian governorates. Investigations of the public prosecution said that two students committed suicide Thursday morning inside their home in Zagazig in Sharkia province, and after 24 hours their third friend was suicide.

Investigations said that the third child victim of mass suicide died inside Zagazig university hospital as a result of taking poisonous chemical substances after they agreed on suicide and the bodies were kept in the hospital morgue, according to the Al Watan Egyptian newspaper. The Egyptian newspaper said that the suicide reason is due to family problems and psychological crises. The newspaper said that there is a friendship between the three girls and that they agreed together to get the poisonous substances of suicide.