Number of suicides in Belarus has increased by 9% this year

635 Belarusians committed suicide in the first quarter of this year. The number has been announced by the Ministry of Statistics and Analysis. It turns out that about 7 people did away with themselves every day. The number of suicides in Belarus has increased by 9% in comparison with the same period of the last year, informs “Salidarnast”.

Let us remind you that the population of our country reduced by 8800 people over the first three months of 2008. There were 9 million 681 thousand people living in Belarus as of April 1.