Welfare Organization: In 1999, the number of suicide victims in Iran increased to 5,542

Hossein Asadbeigi, head of the Monitoring and Coordination Group of the Socially Injured Affairs Office of the Welfare Organization, said: "According to the forensic medicine report in 1999, 5,542 people died due to suicide. In 1998, this number was 5,143, which shows 399 people." The number of suicide victims has increased