Karachi: A teenaged school-going couple on Tuesday committed suicide by shooting themselves with a pistol after their families refused to accept their relationship.
Police sources said that Nouroz Hamdi, the 16-year boy, studying at Gulshane Fatima School in the Soldier Bazar neighbourhood, shot his classmate Fatima Bashir alisa Saba, in a class room while all the other students were attending the inaugural assembly.
After shooting Fatima in the head, Nouroz also shot himself in the head and died. They both left separate suicide notes, though were written in the same handwriting, in their school bags, expressing their intense feelings for each other and that they were left with no choice except committing suicide.
“Daddy, mummy, sorry you people want me to marry with someone else but I just want Fatima to be my wife, which is not acceptable for you,” Nouroz, wrote in English in his suicide note.
“Today I am committing suicide along with Fatima of my own will because as long as we are alive you would not let us be united,” he wrote.
Both the lovers were students of the 10th grade and living in the same house as the Nouroz parents were the tenants of the house.
“Papa! Sorry, I know that you love me a lot but papa I love Nouroz too much that is why I am committing suicide, because I know that you would not let me own Nouroz,” Fatima wrote in her note.
In a post script, Nouroz expressed his last wish and asked his parents to bury him next to Fatima’s grave.
“Mommy after I am dead please make my grave next to Fatima’s grave. This is my last wish,” he wrote before saying bye to the family and how much he loved them.
Pictures released in the media showed pools of blood between the wooden benches on the class. Fatima’s pictures showed her in the blood stained uniform and the exit bullet wound at the back of the head of Nouroz.
Police said that they were investigating the matter but apparently it looked like a suicide case with mutual understanding between the couple.
They said that they found the two empty shells of the 9mm pistol from the class room. It seemed that the girl brought the gun and handed it to the boy who shot the girl first and then himself.