A Syrian refugee mother living in Jordan ended
the life of her son with a gasoline injection, saying she wanted to relieve him
from the difficult living conditions, AFP’s Arabic wire service reported on
Friday, quoting a Jordanian security source.
The mother had previously
attempted to kill her 7-year-old son by hanging. But the failed attempt left
the child with sever wounds, and he was hospitalized for medical treatment, the
source said.
While visiting him at
Princess Basma Hospital in Irbid, northern Jordan, the mother injected the
child’s serum with gasoline.
“The breathing device
launched a warning once the child’s heart stopped beating and the doctors
rushed to save him while the smell of gasoline spread in the room and exposed
the crime,” AFP quoted the unnamed security source as saying.
An estimated 450,000
Syrian refugees have fled to Jordan since the outbreak of the Syrian civil war.
Most of them live in the northern part of the country bordering Syria.
Al Arabiya
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