Desperate measures: Woman, man commit suicide

women locked herself in the bedroom and hanged herself from the ceiling fan; man, swallowed poison

BAHAWALPUR:
A woman and a man committed suicide in separate incidents on Thursday. Police said the woman, a resident of Kehror Laal near Rahim Yar Khan, had been married to a doctor at the tehsil headquarters hospital. They said she had locked herself in the bedroom and hanged herself from the ceiling fan after an argument with him. Kehror have seized the body and sent it for autopsy. Separately, a 22-year-old man, a resident of Yousafabad, swallowed poison after he had an arguement with his parents. His family told police that the man had been unemployed for several months and had been depressed. They said he taken to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.


Published in The Express Tribune, June 13th, 2014.
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