CHITRAL: Jobless youth commits suicide

Published September 21, 2008

CHITRAL, Sept 20: A jobless youth committed suicide by jumping into river on Saturday morning here in Kosht village.

The deceased was identified as Hajibullah, 22. The villagers said that he was jobless since long and facing financial problems being the lone breadwinner in his family.

They said that he was perturbed over his unemployment and despite hectic efforts could not find job anywhere. His body was later on retrieved from the river. He was laid to rest in the graveyard of his ancestral village.

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