Suicide pacts in a district of Sri Lanka between year 2001 and 2014
Author(s) -
S. M. H. M. K. Senanayake
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
medico-legal journal of sri lanka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2012-5887
DOI - 10.4038/mljsl.v4i1.7335
Subject(s) - sri lanka , socioeconomics , geography , medicine , sociology , tanzania
During the thirteen years service in northwestern and north central provinces in two provincial general hospitals as the in charge medico-legal consultant for a district only two incidents had been come across out of 10200 postmortem examinations. First case is 56 and 54 years old married couple committed suicide by ingestion of cyanide due to large financial debt in Kurunegala district. Both went to a famous church and then went in to jungle near to sea and ingested cyanide.
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