NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Feb 16: A jobless youth suffered severe burn injuries after he tried to commit self-immolation in a village near Kandiaro on Friday.

Sajjad Gopang, 18, resident of Ghazi Gopang village, told journalists in a Kandiaro hospital that he was poor and had been trying to get a job but had failed.

He said that options before him were either suicide or criminal activities and he preferred the first option.

He was referred to a Nawabshah hospital as the Kandiaro hospital lacks facilities to treat a burns patient.

BANDIT KILLED: A bandit was crushed to death under the wheels of a trailer when he and his eight accomplices tried to stop it near Moro on Friday.

Nine armed bandits tried to stop the trailer (TLC-653) at Taj petrol pump but the driver did not stop it. As a result one of the bandits was crushed to death.

The dacoit has not been identified.

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