Disgruntled: Teenage boy commits suicide

MANSEHRA: A teenage boy committed suicide in a remote village of Tehsil Oghi, police told on Wednesday. Ziarat Gul, a resident of Khamiyarian village, told police that his 19-year-old son Zubair had taken poison and killed himself.  He added that Zubair had an altercation with his mother over a petty matter on Monday. But on Wednesday he took pesticide and fell unconscious.  He was rushed to the Oghi hospital where doctors referred him to Ayub Teaching Hospital. He was admitted for treatment, but could not survive and died on Tuesday evening. His body was handed over to the heirs after medico-legal formalities, police said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 8^th, 2016.