MUZAFFARABAD: A lady threw her preschooler baby into the Jhelum River moments earlier than leaping into the swollen water channel from a bridge right here on Thursday, in what was the second such incident in lower than three weeks.
CCTV footage recorded from the suitable aspect of River Jhelum in Domel space confirmed the lengthy chador clad lady, recognized as 38-year-old Robina Safdar, slowly strolling by the method highway to the pre-partition period iron bridge at about 9:41am whereas holding the hand of her son Shahzeb, who seems to be lower than 5 years of age.
The iron bridge is usually utilized by pedestrians or two or three wheelers after the development of RCC Quaid-i-Azam Bridge hardly few yards away on its western aspect.
As the girl entered the bridge, she stood alongside its western railing and didn’t take the acute step whereas the bridge was being utilized by some pedestrians and rickshaws.
The second the bridge was unoccupied, the girl pulled her son up and threw him into the river and inside the subsequent few moments climbed the railing and jumped herself, to the shock of the individuals who had been seen standing on the method highway.
Each the girl and baby had been seen within the water for just a few moments, however then disappeared.
Shaheedur Rehman, in-charge of the related Jalalabad police put up informed Daybreak that the girl’s father and partner had given an announcement to them that she was being handled for psychological problems by some physicians in Abbottabad for the previous few years.
“However we’re conducting investigations into their claims and instantly can’t say something with certainty,” he mentioned.
Earlier on Might 5, Bushra Sagheer, spouse of a police constable, had committed suicide alongside along with her toddler daughter in the identical style from the RCC Quaid-i-Azam Bridge.
At the moment, police had quoted her in-laws as having informed them that she [too] was affected by psychological illnesses. Nevertheless, the declare was rejected by her maternal relations, alleging that she had taken the acute step resulting from home violence.
Revealed in Daybreak, Might twenty fourth, 2024