LAKKI MARWAT: The Bannu township police have intensified efforts to arrest a suspect allegedly involved in harassing a woman nurse, who later died by suicide taking toxic pills.

Police said the suicide incident occurred in the Khalifa Gul Nawaz Hospital on June 14, and the same day her brother, Mohammad Adnan, reported the incident to the police.

They said police converted the report into an FIR on June 17.

Adnan told the police that harassment messages sent by a hospital`s staffer, Attiqur Rehman, to her sister`s mobile phone led to her death by suicide.

Adnan said his sister would stay at the hostel after duty hours. He said he was in Islamabad when he was informed that his sister had consumed gas tablets and was in critical condition at the emergency ward of the hospital.

`I along with relatives reached the hospital where my sister was lying unconscious in the ICU ward,` he claimed, adding later she died during treatment.

The police said they had launched an investigation into the case as the mobile phone of the victim and other evidence were collected from the site of occurrence.

They said that raids were being conducted to arrest the suspect.

Meanwhile, the chairman and board of governors of MTI Bannu condemned the incident and expressed their grief and sympathies with the bereaved family.

A woman member, Tamanna Bukhari, also took notice of the incident and directed the relevant officials to conduct a transparent inquiry.

The MTI Bannu spokesperson said the administration was collecting all evidence, including CCTV camera footages and other materials. He said an inquiry committee had already been formed to investigate the circumstances that led to the suicide ofnurse.

The nurse`s suicide spread a wave of unrest and anger among people of Lakki Marwat and Bannu as elders and civil society activists demanded of the police to conduct a transparent probe into the matter.

Elders from Lakki along with the brother of the victim met with regional police officer Sajjad Khan in Bannu and discussed the matter with him.

JUI-F leader and former MPA Fakhr Azam Wazir also held a meeting with the hospital`s director, urging him to ensure transparent investigationinto theincident.

Former Lakki tehsil naib nazim Hafiz Asif Saleem Advocate appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to take suo motu notice of the incident.