MH-HOSPITAL-SUICIDE

A 52-year-old man committed

suicide by jumping from the third floor of a hospital here

Saturday as he was fed up with his illness, police said.

Rahimkhan Pathan, the deceased, was undergoing

treatment for a kidney ailment at the government-run

Divisional Super-speciality Hospital here.

He broke the glass of a window on the third floor by

banging his head on it and then jumped out, said an official

from Bhadrakali police station.

He was severely injured and died in the ICU.

Pathan, resident of Malegaon, had been admitted to the

hospital on Friday. He was undergoing dialyses when he took

the extreme step.

Preliminary probe revealed that he was depressed due

to his illness.

Police are conducting further probe.