Drastic Measures: Minor commits suicide over squabble

KARACHI: A minor girl allegedly committed suicide on Wednesday. Twelve-year-old H* committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan in her house in Korangi. The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and later handed over to the family. Korangi SHO Ghulam Ali Lakho said that the deceased was playing with her siblings when a fight broke out.  The officer said that, in a fit of anger, H later locked herself inside a room and committed suicide using a dupatta. The family found her body after her mother broke the door when H did not respond to their repeated knocks on the door.

*Name has been withheld to protect privacy

Published in The Express Tribune, December 15^th, 2016.