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Suicides on the rise in Afghanistan: official

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KABUL, asking the authorities concerned to help his ministry implement the national suicide control policy.

Dr. Najia Tariq, deputy director for health services at the MoPH, said a survey by the World Health Organisation (WHO) showed 1,205 people committed suicide in 2012 in Afghanistan.

They included 643 women and 562 men, she told a ceremony marking International Suicide Prevention Day titled “Help to rescue a life” in Kabul.

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