Number of suicide attempts in Armenia increased by 60.3% - Prosecutor General

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In 2022, the number of suicide incitement cases or suicide attempts surged in Armenia by 175 or 60.3%, Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan said today.

Number of suicide attempts in Armenia increased by 60.3% - Prosecutor General

YEREVAN, May 3. /ARKA/. In 2022, the number of suicide incitement cases or suicide attempts surged in Armenia by 175 or 60.3%, Prosecutor General Anna Vardapetyan said today.

"This figure tends to get worse. The number of such cases had also grown by 36 or 44% in 2021," she said at a parliamentary session Wednesday.

Vardapetyan noted that 188 suicides cases were reported to law-enforcement bodies last year, down from 191 in 2021.

She said 69 percent of those people who committed suicide were unemployed and retired. --0—

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