Old woman burns herself

Old woman burns herself

JAKARTA (JP): A sixty-year-old woman committed suicide
Saturday by setting herself ablaze.

An officer at the Central Jakarta Police precinct said
yesterday the police assumed that Rukiyah had immolated herself
at her house on Jl. Kramat Sawah, Central Jakarta, because she
was under stress.

"Residents rushed her to the Cipto Mangunkusumo General
Hospital but she died on the way," the officer said.

He said the grandmother of eight children often tried to
commit suicide but had always failed.

According to a relative, Rukiyah suffered stress following her
husband's death ten years ago. (jun)