According to the Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul, the number of suicides in the country has shown an alarming increase, with a record number of 298 in the first half of 2013, whereas in 2011 in the same time period there were 53. By the end of 2011 there were 633 suicides and during 2012 there were 641.
In an interview at the Presidential Palace he said that he was concerned that the rate of suicides was increasing and that the causes needed to be analyzed although they knew that some of the motivations were social conflict, emotional problems, and problems within the family.
Fadul said that the fundamental reasons that people turned to crime were economic factors, lack of education, drugs, unemployment and other social factors.
He also said there had been an increase in traffic accident deaths.
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