Activists and Iraqi media circulated a video clip showing an Iraqi girl trying to commit suicide by throwing herself from the roof of her house, in the Al-Bayaa neighborhood (south of Baghdad), and a police officer managed to rescue her at the last minute.

The girl appeared on the roof of the house threatening to throw herself, while the policeman tried to approach her, in conjunction with pleas from other police officers in front of the house, in an attempt to persuade the girl to refrain from suicide.

Baghdad's rescue succeeds in saving a girl from committing suicide in Al-Bayaa area, as a result of her exposure to domestic violence by her father.

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While the girl was complaining of violence and beatings from her father, the policeman managed to grab her and drag her into the house.

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The spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Interior, Saad Maan, confirmed that the police’s intervention to save the girl came under direct guidance from the higher authorities, and called for “not to leak private family cases through social media platforms to prevent such behavior.

In order to protect the Iraqi family, the Ministry of Interior affirms not to publish cases of attempted suicide, including the one that occurred recently in the capital, Baghdad https://t.co/XckzXNPzkv pic.twitter.com/yh08HiLgPk

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For his part, MP Muhammad Shi`a al-Sudani warned of the increase in suicides, and called on the competent authorities to clarify the mechanisms taken to confront the phenomenon that is threatening the societal peace in the country.

And the Iraqi Ministry of Interior announces almost daily the occurrence of suicides in different parts of the country, and in some cases blames domestic violence, weak religious beliefs, and bad use of communication means.

Recent reports announced by the Ministry of Interior indicated that suicides in Iraq increased from 518 cases in 2018 to 588 cases in 2019, while the dilemma worsened with the spread of the Corona pandemic and the home isolation measures that accompanied the epidemic.

The Iraqi Ministry of Interior recorded 15,000 domestic violence cases in Iraq for the year 2020, according to statistics published last December.