KARACHI, July 24: Three youths committed suicide in Karachi on Wednesday.

They were Nadeemuddin, 24, in North Karachi, Anwer, 25, in Lyari, and Farhana, 23, in Shershah.

Police said Nadeem committed suicide by hanging himself from the roof of a house in New Karachi. He was a resident of Sector 5-D, and he had gone to a vacant house in the neighbourhood to end his life.

He had been jobless for the last several months and on late Tuesday night hanged himself with a rope from the roof. His body was shifted to Abbasi Hospital for postmortem.

Another young man consumed poisonous substance in his home in Lyari on late Tuesday night.

Police said Anwar consumed some poisonous substance in his house in Chawkiwara. The victim was rushed to Civil Hospital, where he died during treatment on Wednesday morning, police said.

The circumstances in which the deceased committed suicide could not be known immediately, police said.

In another incident, a young girl ended her life by committing suicide in her home in Shershah in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Police said Farhana, 23, resident of Muslim Society, Shershah, was found hanging from the ceiling fan on Wednesday morning.

Police said that the deceased committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan after her parents refused to allow her to marry a man of her choice. The body was removed to Abbasi Hospital.