Four friends in northern India anxious over their job prospects jumped in front of a train Thursday in an apparent suicide pact, police said Thursday.while five friends in Multan (Pakistan) were hit by Karachi bound near Ansari chowk when they were returning from a Mehfil-i-Milad.Four died while one narrow escaped because train pushed him out of track. Rescue 1122 sources said that Five friends were returning home late night after attending a Mehfil-i-Milad on Tuesday/wednesday night.They were walking on the track using their hand-free and mobile phones. Train driver blew the horn time and again bu they did not listen to it. Then driver used emergency breaks but he failed to save them. Railway Police said that three youths died on the spot and another succumbed to wounds on way to Nishtar Hospital.Three of them were identified as Ali, Umair and Wahab of Suraj Miani.Fourth could not be identified.
Three died at the scene in Rajasthan while a fourth succumbed to his injuries in hospital, state police told AFP.
Eyewitnesses said the students, aged between 17 and 24, were anxious about jobs and upcoming exams before they hurled themselves in front on the moving carriages in Alwar.
"The probe will reveal the actual reason of the suicide. An eyewitness has said that the boys were worried about jobs," a Rajasthan police official told AFP.
Voters go to the polls next month in Rajasthan, a desert state of nearly 70 million where joblessness is a burning issue.
In September, more than 23,000 jobseekers in Rajasthan applied for just five entry-level government jobs requiring menial office work.
India boasts Asia´s third-largest economy but concerns about job growth, especially for its huge youth population, have been on the rise ahead of next year´s general election.
Suicide is also a major problem in the South Asian nation of 1.25 billion, especially among students.
India has some of the highest suicide rates in the world and in 2015 nearly 9,000 students took their own lives, official figures show.
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