First victim live streams suicide on Facebook in Pakistan.

GHOTKI -- A young man from Ghotki in upper Sindh committed suicide and streamed it live on Facebook Monday in what is the country's first ever such case. Facebook has yet to take down the video. The police took his body to Mirpur Mathelo District Headquarters Hospital. The young man gave a message to his family and friends in Sindhi before committing the act. In the six-minute video, he repeatedly announces he was going to kill himself. He said he was in love, but it had not worked out. 'I can't bring myself to do...

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