MIRPURKHAS: A mother of two children committed suicide by hanging herself with a rope from the roof of her room in Tando Jan Muhammad town on Thursday.

Relatives and neighbours said that Lachmi Rebari, 42, wife of Mangal Rebari, ended her life as she saw no hope of a prosperous life out of her current abject poverty. Police shifted the body to rural health centre and handed it over to heirs after completion of legal formalities.

Published in Dawn, February 18th, 2022

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