Aizawl, Sep 12 : Suicide has emerged as the biggest killer in Mizoram with 45 people, most of them youths, having committed suicide since January till date.
In a statement today, ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day, Aizawl-based suicide prevention organization NeLICs (New Life Charity Society) said suicide claimed more lives than malaria, AIDS and drug overdose had done in Mizoram.
The organization had also recorded that suicide among teenage girls increased alarmingly this year.
The statement added majority of those who committed suicide were between the age of 20 to 30.
The increase in the incidences of suicide in Mizoram, especially in Aizawl district and the capital Aizawl city was described by the law enforcement officials, social workers and psychiatrists as disturbing and alarming .
Police sources said an average of more than two cases of suicide occurred every week in Aizawl district, having a population of barely four lakh (2011 census).
A majority of those who commit suicide are from Aizawl city, having a population of around 2.5 lakh only, said a police official.
During the last three-and-a-half-year, NeLICs had interviewed 1,400 people with suicidal tendency, from which it found that in 31 cases mental depression was the major cause.
Love affairs and sex problems was the second biggest reason among the youths, with 23 per cent of the interviewed subscribing to the view.
Failed marriage (17%), drugs and family problem (16%) and joblessness (13%) were the other problems contributing to the tendency.
Fifty-five percent of the interviewed were aged between 10-30, while 35 per cent were aged between 31-50 and 10 per cent of them aged between 51-70, NeLICs statement said.
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