Australia PM Scott Morrison calls inquiry into veteran suicides

CANBERRA: Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Monday announced a royal commission into the suicides of current and former defence personnel.

Morrison acknowledged the "human cost" of defence deployments, saying he hoped that the long-awaited inquiry would act as a "healing process", reports Xinhua news agency.

"I think this will be a process that will assist in the comfort that those families have been seeking," he told reporters here.

More Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel have lost their lives by suicide than those have died in active duty in Afghanistan since 2001. (IANS)

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