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Russian teen leaps from apartment block after seeing his favourite Japanese cartoon character die on television By SAM WEBB PUBLISHED: 17:10 GMT, 6 June 2015 UPDATED: 17:10 GMT, 6 June 2015 A 14-year-old boy leapt more than 10Oft to his death from the top of an apartment block in Chaikovsky, Russia, after seeing his favourite anime character killed in a cartoon Police say Leonid Hmelev died instantly The boy was reportedly devastated after seeing the death of the character Noriaki Kakyoin in the anime "JoJo's Bizzare Adventure" He left home after posting a message on a social networking site saying he was also 'planning an ending His worried parents raised the alarm after he did not return home and a search was organised together with neighbours After being missing for two days his body was found yesterday and he was identified by his devastated father lvan, 38 He said: always told hin he spent too much time watching the TV - he didn't know what was reality and what was fiction anymore. Teenage suicide in Russia is endemic. It has the third-highest teenage suicide rate in the world just behind its neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan and more than three times that of the United States. © CEN Leonid Hmelev, 14, jumped to his death from an apartment block after his favourite TV character died On an average day, about five Russians younger than 20 kill themselves Popular JoJo character Noriaki Kakyoin. The teen was distraught when the character died. His father says his son struggled to separate reality from fiction Psychiatrists and health experts in Russia blame alcohol abuse, domestic violence, rigid rules and high expectations from parents Noriaki Kakyoin is a character in the popular JoJo comics and animated TV series. He is treated as an secondary protagonist for much of the series, but was much-loved by Japanese TV and comic enthusiasts

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