Extreme step: Woman commits suicide in Attock

Two bodies were recovered from different areas

ATTOCK: A woman committed suicide in unexplained circumstances on Tuesday. The police found two bodies from different areas of Attock district, police sources told Daily Express on Tuesday.

According to the police, a forty years old woman committed suicide in the Dhoke Muli Muhammad in Shakardara area of the Attock District.

The dejected woman took her life due to strained family relations. However, police have registered a case and started an investigation to find the real cause of the suicide.

Meanwhile, a body was recovered from the canal of Ghazi-Barotha powerhouse.

The Attock Saddar police started an investigation to ascertain the identity of the 30 years old man after taking the body into custody.

Separately, the police found the body of a young man near the Mulla Mansoor bridge on the GT Road. The Attock Khurd police shifted the body to Asfandyar District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem and registered a case against unknown killers.

The police are also searching for the heirs of the victim to ascertain his identification and hand over the body to them.

The Jand police arrested nine persons on gambling charges and confiscated Rs87,000 stake money from them.

Published in The Express Tribune, July 20^th, 2016.