3 Class 12 students attempt suicide in Indore, one survives, say police

BHOPAL/SEHORE: Two girls died while another was hospitalised after they allegedly attempted suicide by consuming poisonous substance in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, police said on Saturday.

According to the police, the girls — all residents of Ashta in Sehore district — consumed 10 pain killers each and organic phosphorus, commonly used as fertlizers for plants, on Friday. “They were admitted to Indore’s Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital, where two of them died during treatment,” said Shashikant Chaurasiya, Bhanwar Kuan town inspector.

Of the three girls, one had a fight with her boyfriend while another one was upset with constant fights between her parents, said the officer, reading from the statement recorded on Saturday by the only survivor, who is undergoing treatment at the Indore hospital.

“We were good friends and chose science with biology after class 10. We wanted to go out for studies, but our families asked us to continue our education in a government school in Ashta, which is a small town,” the girl said in her statement.

“All three of us were in depression, but the fight of one the friend with her boyfriend, who lives in Indore, was the trigger point for us taking the extreme step,” it said.

Stating that the girls were battling depression, Chaurasiya said, “Only one of them was using a cellphone. We didn’t find any social media account except Snapchat. We found two videos that were shot right before they attempted suicide.”