Coronavirus: Cops rush to Chandigarh family that threatened suicide over food supply

Chandigarh Police extended help to a family

Tribune Web Desk

Updated At : 02:17 PM Mar 29, 2020 IST

Chandigarh, March 29

The Chandigarh Police on Saturday extended help to a family which ran out of food due lockdown in the city and threatened to commit suicide, an official statement said.

Police said they received a distress call from a woman saying she, along with her husband and a sick child, will commit suicide as they have no means to buy food and medicine, it said.

Deputy Superintendent of Police Dilsher Singh, along with area station house officer, rushed to the family’s residence in Maulijagran and gave them food and some money, it said. PTI

Coronavirus: Cops rush to Chandigarh family that threatened suicide over food supply

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