Woman commits suicide

Published June 17, 2002

SARGODHA, June 16: A woman committed suicide by jumping in front of the moving 35-Up train due to domestic issue here on Sunday.

Relatives of Sajida told newsmen that she had taken her life after exchanging hard words with her husband over money issue.

Meanwhile, the railcar driver by applying emergency brakes saved a man, aged about 60, who was lying on the track to commit suicide close to Hazoorpur railway station near Miani. He was reported to have been rebuked by his children over some domestic issue. The railcar was going from Bhera to Malakwal.

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