Woman HRD official jumps to death

July 18, 2019 01:34 am | Updated 01:35 am IST - NEW DELHI

A 52-year-old woman who worked with the Ministry of Human Resource Development jumped to death from an office building in Lodhi Colony, the police said.

A senior police officer said that the deceased was a resident of Karol Bagh.

“The woman jumped from the fourth floor of the office building. Employees rushed her to a hospital where she was declared brought dead,” the officer said.

The police said that a note has been recovered in which the deceased wrote that she felt lonely after her husband died of cancer in December. She used to stay with her sons.

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