{"id":222379,"date":"2026-07-25T15:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222379\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:38:08","slug":"nineteen-year-old-dies-by-suicide-in-iraqs-mosul-shafaq-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/222379\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen-year-old dies by suicide in Iraq\u2019s Mosul – Shafaq News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shafaq News- Nineveh<\/p>\n

A 19-year-old man died by suicide inside his home
\nin Mosul, with initial investigations pointing to psychological and economic
\npressures as possible factors behind the incident, a security source told
\nShafaq News on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The young man was found dead after hanging himself
\nwith a rope on the upper floor of his family\u2019s house in the Bab al-Baid area on
\nthe right bank of Mosul, in Nineveh province.<\/p>\n

Authorities began investigating the circumstances
\nsurrounding the incident.<\/p>\n

Iraq recorded<\/a> 617 suicides nationwide in the first
\nhalf of 2026, according to figures released by the Interior Ministry. A 2025
\nreport by Iraq\u2019s Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs found that the country
\nrecords an average of 55 to 70 suicides per month, with cases increasing from
\nroughly 1,100 in 2022 to about 1,300 in 2023 and nearing 1,500 in 2024.<\/p>\n

Read more: When life feels closed from all sides: Iraq\u2019s rising suicide cases<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-07-25T15:04:13+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Nineveh A 19-year-old man died by suicide inside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[14],"tags":[94,6255,63859,5320,21403],"class_list":["post-222379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iraq","tag-iraq","tag-mosul","tag-nineteen-year-old-dies-by-suicide-in-iraqs-mosul","tag-nineveh","tag-suicide"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116981366997236503","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}