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Indians top foreigners’ suicide list in Saudi Arabia
DUBAI: Suicide cases among foreign workers in Saudi Arabia are on
the increase, with Indians accounting for over 40 per cent of the
incidents, health ministry said.
As many as 203 Indian workers were among the 266 who took their
lives last year, the health ministry report said, adding nearly 295
foreigners were murdered during the same period.
Expatriates accounted for 77 per cent of suicides in the Gulf
country last year with Indians (203) taking 43 per cent, followed by
Bangladeshis (155), Pakistanis (141), Yemenis (102) and Egyptians
(97), the Arab News reported.
"Of the total deaths last year, 957 or 50.1 per cent were not
natural and suicides represented 27 per cent of such deaths," the
report said, adding that the reasons for 93 deaths were not known.
According to Dr Abdul Razak Al-Hamad, consultant in mental medicine
at King Saud University, the exact figures for suicides in Saudi
Arabia are not available.
The largest number of suicides is in the age group of 30-39 and they
represent about 44.3 per cent of the total, followed by those aged
20-29, which accounts for 33.6 per cent, the report said. As many as
63 per cent foreign workers ended their lives by hanging while 12
per cent jumped from a high place.
28 November 2007
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