KARACHI: A woman threw her two-year-old daughter before jumping herself off a six-storey building in Karachi’s Gulshan Iqbal Block-IV today (Saturday), according to the locals.
According to details, the woman, along with her child, jumped off from a six-storey building after it emerged that she was locked in a room by her family over drug-addiction.
Rescue officials informed that the incident caused serious fractures on the legs of the woman and her daughter, adding that they were shifted to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
Sources informed that the woman was a drug addict and was married for a second time recently. She was locked in a room along with her two-year-old daughter by the family to get rid of drugs.
The eye-witnesses said that the woman initially threw her mobile phone from the sixth floor, attracting attention from the passers-by. She later threw her daughter from the building who was caught by the bystanders.
The people gathered at the building tried to stop her from jumping off the building, however, she slipped off the building while trying to come down from the balcony. The police said that they were investigating the matter from all angles.
