Alleged Suicides: Teenage boy shoots himself

KHAIRPUR: An 18-year-old boy shot himself with a pistol in Choundiko, within the jurisdiction of Sorah police station. The authorities have yet to determine why he committed suicide. Separately, a woman also committed suicide at her house in Chhatal Narejo village of Pir Jo Goth taluka. She took some pesticide and fell unconscious. The family rushed her to the local hospital where the doctors said she was already dead. The authorities have yet to determine what caused her to take such an action.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 4^th, 2014.