SRINAGAR: A 65-year-old woman committed suicide by setting herself on fire in south Kashmir district of Anantnag, a police spokesman said, the second such incident in past three days.
The woman, a resident of Damhal area of Anantnag District, succumbed at a local hospital, five days after she had tried to burn herself to death.
Police have registered a case and initiated proceedings.
A Police officer, investigating into the case, said “she was upset, very upset.”
Earlier on Sunday a teenage girl committed suicide by setting herself on fire in north Kashmir.
Suicide is a taboo subject in the devoutly Muslim state, so many suicide deaths are never reported.
But the few figures available offer an insight into the darkest corner of Kashmir’s psyche.
Research from the Psychiatric Diseases Hospital says Kashmir’s suicide rate has increased 40-fold since militancy broke out over two decades ago.
Before 1989, Kashmir’s suicide rate was 0.5 per 100,000 people.
