Lab technician hangs self, youth jumps into Jehlum

Srinagar: A government employee allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself inside Gousia hospital here in Khanyar area of down town Srinagar Wednesday evening.
Official sources told GNS that Farooq Ahmad Bhat son of Ali Mohammad Bhat of Khalishpora area of Old city who is working as a lab technician at Gousia hospital, Khanyar this evening hanged himself in his room inside the hospital.
The colleagues of the technician after spotting him hanging in the room, they immediately rushed him to the SMHS hospital where doctors declared him brought dead, sources said.
A police official confirmed the incident said that we have registered a case under 174 CrPc and further investigations have been taken up.
In another incident, a 25-year-old youth committed suicide by jumping into river jehlum near Maisuma, a police official told GNS.
“A police team was instantly rushed to the spot and quickly retrieved the body of the youth”, a police official told GNS, adding that the identity of the deceased is yet to be ascertained.
He said that a case has been registered in this regard and further investigations area going on. (GNS)
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