Three girls commit suicide in Taiz

TAIZ, Aug.27 (YPA) –  The province of Taiz, southwest Yemen, woke up with a shocking news about three young girls committed a suicide. The incident has caused widespread reactions among citizens.

Activists on social media  said that three girls committed suicide in Al-Ma’afar directorate in Taiz province on Thursday evening.

The activists explained that the three girls who had committed mass suicide by drinking insecticides used for the Qat tree.

Local sources in al-Ma’afar district, south of Taiz, explained that two of them are sisters and the third is a cousin. Their age is only 20 years old.

The three girls were taken to a hospital in the area, where two died, while the third was taken to a hospital in Taiz in the hope that she would receive the necessary aid, the sources said.

The sources reported differences between the families of the girls and tribal dignitaries , after the family of the two girls asked  to hand over the bodies for burial, but the dignitaries of the area refused to bury them until the facts about the incident revealed.

E.M