BEIJING More than 173,000 rural Chinese women commit suicide each year an average of 474 a day, the Southern Weekend said on Friday, quoting extrapolations by a group of medical doctors. An average of 303,047 rural residents killed themselves each year between 1990 and 1994, the newspaper said. Of those, 173,230 were women, it said, adding that rural women aged between 15 and 39 who committed suicide totalled 99,266.

(Reuter)