Tears flowed as more than 1,000 people turned up at the house of M Vasanthapiriya in Nibong Tebal, Penang, to bid farewell to the 13-year-old student who succumbed to her injuries following an attempt to hang herself.

Among those present were the Form One student's schoolmates.

After prayers were performed, the coffin left in a car covered with flowers for the Hindu burial ground in Jalan Changkat at about 2pm.

Some of her friends, clad in their school uniforms, burst into tears and started to scream as the coffin left the house...