Migrant worker Tek Bahadur Kunwar of Nuwakot – 2 returned home from Qatar last Wednesday. He was not full of zeal or happiness upon his return.
Let alone greeting his family members and asking them whether they were doing fine, he took out weapon as soon as he stepped into home. He forcefully took his father, wife and two-and-a-half-year old daughter to a corner and started attacking them.
The shocked father tried to calm down his son, but to no avail. Terrified with the situation, the victims rushed out of the house. Responding to their cries for help, neighbors thronged their house.
While neighbors tried to make sense of what was happening in the family by talking with the terrified family members, Kunwar fled the scene. When villagers went in search for him, they found him hanging on a tree.
Locals now argue that Kunwar was planning to commit suicide after killing all in his family first. But he was not able to kill them, though he managed to injure. His injured wife Shreejana is receiving treatment at a hospital in Butwal.
This is the latest incident of suicide in the district. Both locals and police accept that suicide is getting more and more common. On July 29, Parbati, a 9-year-old girl from Dhanchaur village was found hanging by a tree. The case was treated as a suicide y the local authorities.
Suicidal tendencies among young as well old age groups have alarmed the locals and authorities alike. During that last 22 days, four persons have committed suicide in Arghakhachi which included two married women aged 17 and 21.
On 25 January this year, 92-year-old Hira Singh Thapa of Nuwakot – 53, also ended his life by hanging. On 15 August, 81-year-old Rambahadur Kami of Mareng – 4, also hung himself to death. Few days later, seventy five-year-old Dadhiram Marasini of Dhikura village was also found hanging by a tree.
In the last eight months, 48 people in this district have committed suicide. In the last eight months, 48 people in the district have committed suicide. Police reports show that 41 of them, 14 female and 27 male, took their own lives by hanging, while the remaining seven, of which four were male and three female, ended their lives by consuming poison.
According to INSEC representative Narayan Bhushal, lack of awareness among people that suicide is a crime is also one of the biggest reasons for increase in its occurrence. He stated that the root cause could be many and that has to be countered and rooted out.
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