Family suicide tragedy claims one more

Four family members die in an attempt to evade destitution.

LAHORE: Another member of the poverty stricken family from Lahore that had attempted collective suicide has died in Jinnah hospital lahore on Thursday.

Fourteen-year-old Beenish and her mother were the only survivors when the whole family attempted collective suicide. Doctors report that the mother is still in a critical state.

CM punjab had also visited the mother and daughter in hospital yesterday. He announced one million rupees fund for the family and said the cause of the tragedy was not poverty but a family dispute.

The family of six had consumed poisonous pills in a suicide attempt in Shahpur Kanjra on Wednesday, in order to escape poverty.