Unemployment: Man commits suicide due to poverty
Unemployment: Man commits suicide due to poverty
HARIPUR:
A young man reportedly committed suicide in a village of Ghazi tehsil due to abject poverty, police said on Tuesday. Abbas, a resident of Thalikot, told the police his son Mujahid, 20, was unemployed since the last few years despite several attempts to land a job. Abbas added Mujahid was suffering from depression as a result and consumed rat poison on Monday afternoon. He was rushed to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and was later referred to Rawalpindi General Hospital where he died Tuesday morning.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2014.
A young man reportedly committed suicide in a village of Ghazi tehsil due to abject poverty, police said on Tuesday. Abbas, a resident of Thalikot, told the police his son Mujahid, 20, was unemployed since the last few years despite several attempts to land a job. Abbas added Mujahid was suffering from depression as a result and consumed rat poison on Monday afternoon. He was rushed to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and was later referred to Rawalpindi General Hospital where he died Tuesday morning.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2014.