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Ferry sinking: Vice-principal found dead in apparent suicide

Danwon High School — 236 of whose students remained missing — plunged deeper into sadness yesterday after its vice-principal was found dead in an apparent suicide.

Danwon High School — 236 of whose students remained missing — plunged deeper into sadness yesterday after its vice-principal was found dead in an apparent suicide.

Mr Kang Min-gyu, 52, was found hanging from a tree on a hill near a gymnasium where the families of those missing from the sunken ship have gathered. The police said they suspected he committed suicide. He had been missing since Thursday after he was rescued from the ferry.

When asked about a possible motive, Mr Lim Jong-ho, a spokesman of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education, said: “Probably a sense of guilt.”

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