KARACHI: Young man commits suicide

Published November 1, 2002

KARACHI, Oct 31: A young man committed suicide in Hub Chowki area on Thursday.

Police said that Mashooq Ali, aged 32, shot him self in the abdomen. He was rushed to a nearby private hospital, from where he was referred to Civil Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

Quoting Mashooq’s family members, police said that the young man was unhappy with his conjugal life. His wife had left him two years back and since then she had been living at her parents’ house.

On Thursday morning he locked himself up in a room and shot himself in the abdomen.

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