Second policewoman reported to have committed suicide

The body of a woman who the police identified as one of their own officers was found on Wednesday morning in the town of Ostrava. The 22-year-old woman had apparently shot herself in a wooded area and was discovered by a passerby the next day. The report comes only one day after the announcement that another female police officer had shot and killed herself in her office at Prague police headquarters several weeks before. The woman in the latter case had left a letter in which she said she was being mobbed and humiliated by her superiors. Police in north Moravia said there was nothing to indicate that the Ostrava officer’s suicide was related to her work.