New bride jumps off balcony to 'join' husband who killed himself after wedding

The heartbroken bride wrote a note saying she wanted to be with her late husband, who died by suicide days after their wedding in India, and she was being treated in hospital after surviving the fall

By?Chris Kitching

Senior News Reporter

22:10, 12 SEP 2020

A heartbroken newlywed?bride jumped off a balcony after her husband killed himself just days after their?wedding,?making her a widow, say police.

Newlywed：newly-wed 新婚的

The 32-year-old groom?took his own life on Wednesday, and was found poisoned inside his crashed car.

groom ?/ɡru?m/??v. （給動物）刷洗； （給自己或其他動物）梳毛；（使）整潔；照料（草坪、滑雪坡等）；（使）做好準備；誘騙（兒童以圖對其實施性侵犯）n. 馬夫；新郎；王室侍從官

The contractor left behind a suicide note blaming two engineers from a local municipal authority, claiming he had been harassed at work.

municipal authority：市政機構(gòu)

municipal ?adj. /mju??n?s?pl/ ??市政的；地方政府的?? municipal elections/councils 地方政府選舉；市政委員會

harassed ?adj. /?h?r?st/ ?/h??r?st/ ?tired and anxious because you have too much to do 疲憊焦慮的?? a harassed-looking waiter 愁眉苦臉的服務員

His grief-stricken?wife, a medical student who was in her 20s, wrote a note saying she wanted to join her husband, and jumped from a balcony at a shopping mall in Indore, a city in west-central India, on Friday morning, local media reported.

grief-stricken??adj. ?feeling extremely sad because of sth that has happened, especially the death of sb （尤因某人的去世而）極度悲傷的，悲痛欲絕的

Indore?/in'd?:/ n. 印多爾（印度城市）

She survived the fall and was being treated in hospital for serious injuries to her head and legs just over two weeks after she and her late husband said their "I dos".

After the groom's death, the bride's father had arrived to take her back to her parents' home in Faridabad.

Faridabad?n. 法里達巴德（南亞城市名）

They were staying at a hotel when she attempted suicide, and were due to board a flight on Friday afternoon.

She left the hotel, telling her dad she was going to get a drink, but went to the shopping centre about four miles away.

Mall staff rushed her to a local hospital.

Police said the woman had written a note saying she wanted to join her husband.

A police spokesman told local media: "It is a case of attempted suicide.

"The woman has been hospitalised. We are looking into the matter."

Police have opened a criminal case against the two engineers named in the groom's suicide note, as well as a third person, for alleged?abetment?(assisting) to suicide.

alleged /??l?d?d/ ?An alleged fact has been stated but has not been proved to be true. 指稱的? ?They have begun a hunger strike in protest at the alleged beating. 他們已經(jīng)開始了絕食以抗議所指稱的打人事件。

Abetment?/?'betm?nt/?n. 煽動；教唆；幫助；支持。上次我們看到過動詞abet教唆；唆使；煽動；慫恿

A police spokesman said: "A suicide note was found from his possession which is being examined."

No-one has been arrested.

The woman's attempted suicide occurred a day after World Suicide Prevention Day, which was marked with events across India.

World Suicide Prevention Day：世界預防自殺日

A recent World Health Organisation report found that India has the highest suicide rate in Southeast Asia.

Its rate of 16.5 suicides per 100,000 people was followed by Sri Lanka (14.6) and Thailand (14.4).

India had the third-highest female suicide rate (14.7) in the world after Lesotho (24.4) and South Korea (15.4) based on 2016 data.

Lesotho?/l??su?tu?/ ?n. 萊索托（非洲國家）

An average of 28 students die by suicide in India every day, according the recent data from the country's National Crime Records Bureau.

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