GUJRANWALA, Oct 13: A mother of three committed suicide after she failed to pay school fee of her children in Dhulley on Saturday.

Nasim got upset when her three children told her that the school administration had expelled them from school due to non-payment of fee for the last three months.

She went to a room and hanged herself with a ceiling fan. The police shifted the body to Civil Hospital for an autopsy.

RELEASED: Seven prisoners of Central Jail were released by the sessions judge on Saturday.

Hafizabad Additional District and Sessions Judge Ashter Abbas visited the Central Jail and got prepared a list of prisoners involved in minor cases. He ordered the jail administration to release them.

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