A Fatal Fall, a Quiet Crisis: Youth Drug Culture Exposed Amid Crackdown

Male’, — In the pale early light of Friday morning, passersby on Buruzu Magu noticed something strange atop a warehouse roof — a young woman, motionless but alive, her body sprawled across the corrugated sheet. Hours earlier, at 4:52 a.m., a sharp crash had echoed through the stairwell of a nearby nine-story building. Few knew then that it was the sound of her fall — through a fanlight on the upper terrace, landing on the roof below. She would remain there unseen for nearly three hours until someone finally spotted her and called for help. The Maldives National Defence Force … Continue reading A Fatal Fall, a Quiet Crisis: Youth Drug Culture Exposed Amid Crackdown