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COVID-19 lockdown: Distressed family threatens to commit suicide, Chandigarh cops rush to help

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Press Trust of India Chandigarh

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.

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First Published: Mar 28 2020 | 8:22 PM IST

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