<p>The body of a 17-year-old tribal boy was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Wednesday, police said.</p>.<p>The incident happened at a village in Dumka town police station area, they said.</p>.<p>The boy, a class 10 student, lived in a rented house in the village with his grandmother and siblings, Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Noor Mustafa Ansari said.</p>.<p>It is being investigated whether he died by suicide or he was killed, he said.</p>.<p>Last week, a 14-year-old tribal girl was raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Mufassil police station area of the district.</p>.<p>In August, a 16-year-old girl died after she was set on fire by a man "whose advances she had spurned".</p>
<p>The body of a 17-year-old tribal boy was found hanging from a tree in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Wednesday, police said.</p>.<p>The incident happened at a village in Dumka town police station area, they said.</p>.<p>The boy, a class 10 student, lived in a rented house in the village with his grandmother and siblings, Sub Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) Noor Mustafa Ansari said.</p>.<p>It is being investigated whether he died by suicide or he was killed, he said.</p>.<p>Last week, a 14-year-old tribal girl was raped, killed and hanged from a tree in Mufassil police station area of the district.</p>.<p>In August, a 16-year-old girl died after she was set on fire by a man "whose advances she had spurned".</p>