A girl working in NGO for suicide prevention commits suicide in rail coach

Navsari: A 19-year old female from Navsari working in a social service organisation working for suicide prevention committed suicide by hanging herself in Gujarat queen train.

As per the police sources, a female named Mansi Shitprasad Gupta (age: 19 years) living beside Jalaram Bapa mandir in Bhaktinagar in Navsari and studying in the first year of college in Vadodara worked in a social service organisation. She had come to her home in Navsari from Vadodara 5 days ago. She had then informed her mother that she wanted to go to Maroli for work and she will return after a day.

On the next day, her dead body was found from the coach D-12 of Gujarat queen train. She hanged herself to death by tying a dupatta to the luggage rack in the train. The cleaners had found her hanging after the train was empty at 12.30 am at Valsad station and they immediately informed the police. The railway police called FSL for further investigation. A case of accidental death is filed at Valsad railway police station. The institute in which she worked works for suicide prevention, it is learnt. The female’s father informed that she was good at her studies and she had ranked first in the district level in class 10. DeshGujarat