MUZAFFARABAD: A woman committed suicide along with her infant daughter by jumping into Jhelum River on Sunday.

Police said Bushra Sagheer, who was allegedly suffering from some mental ailments, had left her home in Bandi Kokiyal village, some 25 kilometres south of here, for her parents’ place in Panjkot village, some 35 kilometres northeast of here, in the morning.

However, after reaching Muzaffarabad she stopped over Quaid-i-Azam Bridge near the confluence of Jhelum and Neelum rivers from where he jumped into Jhelum River at about 11am.

Witnesses told the police that they noticed the woman standing at the bridge for about 10 minutes following which she first threw her one-and-a-half years old daughter into the river and then jumped herself, only to be swept away by the violent current in the wink of an eye.

According to police, the woman, who was a mother of two daughters, had been suffering from mental disorders for more than a year.

On Sunday morning, she left home after her spouse had set off for his workplace – Garhi Dupatta police station –while leaving behind her elder daughter aged three years, police said.

None of the bodies could be retrieved from the river till the filing of this report.

Published in Dawn, May 6th, 2024