Chak Jhumra:
A newlywed couple committed suicide by jumping in front of a train after not receiving money for their honeymoon.
Police handed the bodies to the families after completing legal procedures. Police said Sajid, a 34-year-old power weave worker and resident of 202 Rab Bhaiwala Adeel City in Jurisdiction for Millat Town Police Station, had married Razia about two and a half months ago.
The couple had planned to go to Naran for their honeymoon after Eid.
Sajid asked his older brothers, Fahad and Zahid, for money, but they were unable to arrange funds.
Early Tuesday morning, Sajid left home with his 30-year-old wife, Razia Bibi, and went to Bhaiwala Railway Crossing near the chairmanship.
He called his brother Zahid and said to him, “I will commit suicide with my wife. Come and collect our bodies.”
After the phone call, Sajid and his wife lay on the railroad tracks. At that moment, the Badr Express train arrived from Lahore to Karachi, and both husband and wife committed suicide by coming under the train. They died on the spot when their heads were cut from their bodies. When he saw the bodies on the railway track, Sajid’s older brother Zahid reached the place and collected their leftovers using passers -by their leftovers. Passers -by informed police.
The Millat Town police arrived at the scene and handed over after completing legal formalities to the family.
Police said the deceased was working on a power tissue and had married Razia Bibi two and a half months ago. The couple took their own lives after being discouraged as Sajid’s brothers could not deliver the money they had requested for the wedding journey.
Neighbors said the couple just 15 days after marriage was forced to live separately by their families.
