After losing more than US$3,000 of borrowed money betting on the ongoing FIFA World Cup games in Brazil, a Chinese college student decided to leap to his death because he could no longer repay his debts.

State-owned Information Times reported that the second year student, identified by authorities only by his surname Lin, died after jumping from the seventh floor of a building inside his campus in Beijing.

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The name of the campus has been withheld and authorities have initially ruled out foul play in the death of the college student after several witnesses said the student committed suicide.

One witness said he heard the student saying "don't force me" and "give me two more days to repay" while talking on the phone for nearly 10 minutes. 

"I thought it was just an ordinary case of unpaid debt but after I heard him talking on the phone, he suddenly hang up and jumped off the building," the witness told the state-owned publication.

A classmate told authorities that Lin had lost nearly 20,000 yuan, or around US$3,000 betting on World Cup games. 

It was not clear though which teams Lin placed his bets on but his classmate said he was a gambler. China does not have a team playing in the ongoing World Cup in Brazil.

"I know he borrowed money with high interest rates just to gamble on the ongoing World Cup games," the classmate was quoted as saying.

The student was rushed to the hospital but he was declared dead on arrival, authorities said.

Despite the absence of the local team in the ongoing World Cup in Brazil, China's World-Cup related lottery hit 4 billion yuan (around US$641 million) last Saturday, or almost double the 2.2 billion yuan lottery sales in the 2010 World Cup.

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