A 19-year-old girl in Rajasthan on Friday killed herself by jumping in front of a train for not being allowed to study engineering, police said.

In her suicide note, Pooja Singh Kumawat said she was unable to pursue her dream of becoming an engineer because she was a girl, police said.

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I think a lot of what is going on with kids who get pushed too far and attempt either murder or suicide is that they are trying to deal with their own non-existence for the people who are supposed to care most for them. -- Richard Russo