A young girl committed suicide in Bamyan

Local sources in Bamyan say a young girl hanged herself in the province and ended her life.

The sources said that the incident took place in the village of Seyed Baba in the Sighan district of the province, and that the young girl had committed suicide against her family for forced marriage.

According to sources, the girl’s family trying to keep her daughter’s suicide secret.

local Taliban official in Bamyan has not yet commented.

Suicides have recently risen in most of Afghanistan’s provinces, and most of these suicides have been blamed on stress caused by the poor economic situation.