Man climbs telephone tower, threatens suicide

A 52-year-old mentally unstable man climbed a telephone tower in Lodhi Colony and stayed there for more than fifteen hours, threatening to kill himself., reports HT Correspondent.

A 52-year-old mentally unstable man climbed a telephone tower in Lodhi Colony in south Delhi and stayed there for more than fifteen hours, threatening to kill himself, police said.

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The man, identified as Mangal Singh, work as an electrician with the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) and had climbed the tower on Tuesday night, a police officer said. Singh agreed to come down only if a television channel was called to the scene, he added.

He slept there the entire night and woke up on Wednesday when he felt thirsty.

Singh lives in Dwarka, Sector 8 with his family. He has been undergoing treatment for a mental disease since the past six years.

The fire brigade was called in to rescued the man around noon.