Karachi woman jumps off a building after throwing her daughter down, in a video of the incident, it can be seen that the woman throws down the child before proceeding to jump off.
A lady in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 13 D areas threw a two-year-old girl down from a 6th-floor building before leaping off herself, Geo News reported Saturday.
According to police, the woman, identified as Maryam, 35 years old, was rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The infant, identified as Iman, 2 years old, was miraculously unharmed as people standing below caught her in a stretched cloth.
In a video of the current incident, it can be seen that the lady throws down the child before proceeding to jump off.
Initial investigations, according to police, exposed that the woman’s husband — from a second marriage — had locked her in a room to stop her from using drugs as she is an “addict”.
The woman took the extreme step today after not having stepped out of her house for some days.
The woman’s first husband has passed away, conferring to police, while three of her other children live with the husband’s sister.
Maryam who throw her child is suffered a fractured leg was moved to a nearby welfare hospital on University Road and was later taken to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre.
