Man commits suicide in Sanghar

Published March 14, 2002

SANGHAR, March 13: A man, Azeem, 25, son of Mohammad Hayat Nizaman, committed suicide by taking pesticides when his father refused to buy a rickshaw for him.

His father could not fulfil his demand because he was a small landowner.

He was rushed to the Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.

LOOTED: Six armed men blocked the Toori road late on Tuesday night and looted the passengers.

The men looted cash, ornaments and other valuables from car passengers and deprived a man of his motorcycle.

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