Bangladesh teens commit suicide on Valentine’s Day
A 16-year-old girl and her 17-year-old lover committed suicide in southern Bangladesh on Valentine’s Day after the girl was forced to marry another man, police said Tuesday.
The bodies of Mitu Molla and Soud Sheikh were found with “each of their hands tied together with a scarf” after they jumped from a mobile phone tower in Gopalganj district, police inspector Sarojit Biswas said. “They died on the way to a clinic. It appears that the teenagers, who are from two neighbouring villages, had a love affair and they chose Valentine’s Day to kill themselves,” Biswas told AFP.
He said Molla’s family took her to a town 200 kilometres (120 miles) from her village two months ago and married her off to a man twice her age against her will after the affair with Sheikh became public. Sheikh, a high school student in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, secretly returned to the village on Monday night to meet the girl, who had also gone back to visit her parents’ home, Biswas said. “Most probably the boy and the girl talked over mobile phones to decide on the suicide pact,” he added.
Re: Teenage couple commit suicide on Valentine's Day
agree....it really isn't worth losing your life......
there are too many other options available......if you can orchestrate such a dramatic exit from this world then surely you can run away together or find a way to either annul the marriage or divorce her husband.
Re: Teenage couple commit suicide on Valentine's Day
Maybe i'm an awful twisted romantic (or too recently passed the teen age myself) but I don't find anything wrong with it. But if they had the guts to commit suicide they might as well have run away or something.
