Covid-19 stress: Cop shoots self, 4 others commit suicide in Maharashtra

NASHIK/PUNE/NAGPUR: A police sub-inspector committed suicide on Saturday afternoon by shooting himself with his service revolver at the Malegaon city police station outside a room where a meeting on the Covid-19 situation was in progress. Police are trying to ascertain the reason behind Shaikh taking the extreme step.
A string of suicides in different cities have rocked the state over the past few days since the coronavirus outbreak. In Pune, a 61-year-old man ended his life on Friday morning by jumping off his second-floor flat in the Warje area after penning a suicide note in Marathi stating he was tired of the situation because of the pandemic. The Warje police said in his note, found in his room, he also drew a diagram of coronavirus as shown on television channels.
In Nashik, a 31-year-old man also ended his life on Saturday morning fearing that he contracted the Covid-19 infection. The deceased has been identified as Prateek Kumawat. An accidental death case has been registered.
The police said that they had found a suicide note in which the deceased claimed that he was afraid of infections and thought that he had contracted the infection.
75-year-old’s suicide note read ‘coronavirus fear’
Earlier this week, a 75-yearold man from Law College Road in Pune had ended his life by hanging himself from the ceiling fan on Monday. He had written a two-word suicide note-—“coronavirus fear”—before ending his life.
Meanwhile, a 30-year-old asymptomatic man from Assam, who tested positive for Covid-19 two days ago, committed suicide early on Saturday by slitting his throat in the isolation ward of a state-run medical college at Akola. The deceased, a migrant worker who had come to Patur village near Akola from Salpara in central Assam’s Nagaon district, was in a group of seven put in quarantine after it was reported that they had spent eight days together in a mosque at Badnera in Amravati district.