40-year old woman ends life in Poonch
Poonch: A 40-year old woman committed suicide by jumping into a river from a bridge in Poonch district on Tuesday, police said.
Reports said that the woman Surinder Kour Singh of Ward Number 17 Mohalla Azad Poonch jumped into the river from Sher-e-Kashmir Bridge in Poonch on Tuesday morning.
Soon after the incident, local volunteers and police launched a rescue operation, they said.
They said that the body of the woman was washed away nearly two kilometers away from where her body was later retrieved by the police.
The body was later taken to district hospital Poonch for medico legal formalities including the postmortem they added.
A police officer also confirmed the incident and said that investigations under 174 CrPc have been initiated in this regard. (GNS)
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