Agartala, April 23 (IANS) Suffering an abdominal ailment for several years and finding no relief, a 45-year-old woman in Tripura slit her stomach and died, police said on Thursday.
Salea Khatun slashed her stomach open with a sharp blade at Sonamura on Wednesday night, police said.
“Her family members told us that to get relief from her prolonged illness, she cut open her stomach… she died as a result,” a police officer said.
The woman, mother of five children, was facing abdominal discomfort for several years and had consulted various doctors.
“I have done everything … whatever the doctors advised me to cure my wife and spent lakhs of rupees on treatment. The doctors could not even diagnose her disease,” Khatun’s husband Mamin Mia said.