LARKANA: An unmarried woman committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her house in Cattle Colony in the jurisdiction of Rehmatpur police station on Saturday.

The victim’s family members claimed they did not notice when Farzana Umrani, 22, hanged herself in her room and what led to take the extreme step. They removed the body from the fan and shifted it to Chandka Medical College Hospital for medico-legal formalities, they said.

Police officials said that they were investigating the death and pursuing different angles of what appeared to be a suicide.

Published in Dawn, July 24th, 2022

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