Austerity drives Greeks to suicide

From daily The Morning Star in Britain:

Woman’s suicide threat

GREECE: A 35-year-old deaf and mute woman threatened to commit suicide after climbing up the supports of a sculpture in Omonia Square, central Athens, on Monday.

The single mother of two was protesting against serious delays in disability payments that have resulted from successive austerity measures.

She was later lifted to safety by firefighters using a crane.

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