Shafaq News / A security source reported that Dhi Qar governorate has registered, since the beginning of the current year, 12 suicide cases/attempts.

The source told Shafaq News agency that most of the victims were in their twenties.

"The number is frightening and must be a wake-up call for the local authorities in Nasiriyah and its suburbs", the source added.

Al-Monitor said in a report published in October 2020, that Iraqi youths face numerous problems amid systemic political failure that prevents them from reaching their goals. They resort to suicide, and this is becoming a phenomenon rather than a matter of limited cases threatening Iraqi society for the first time.