HERAT CITY (Pajhwok): At least 470 people were delivered at the zonal hospital in western Herat province after attempting suicide this solar year, with 20 losing their lives, officials at the hospital said Monday.
Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, the spokesman of Herat Zonal Hospital, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 70 percent of the suicide attempts were made by women and 30 percent by young men.
He linked the extreme step to forced and underage marriages, domestic violence, baad marriages . . .
