A man has reportedly committed suicide at Umudafa, Awo Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of Imo state.
Neighbours, on Tuesday, discovered 45-year-old Osita Ezuruike had hung himself at his residence in the area.
Sources at the community claimed the deceased was frustrated with life flowing the lockdown and the dusk-to-dawn curfew declared by the state government to curtail the spread of the dreaded coronavirus [Covid-19] disease in the state.
The police, however, said that the reason the deceased took his life had yet to be ascertained as of the time of filing this report.
Our correspondent learnt that the deceased neighbours alerted the police after they discovered that he had hung himself.
When contacted, the police spokesperson in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, said that the corpse had taken to a morgue.
Ikeokwu said that investigation into the incident had commenced.
He said, “On April 27, acting on a report, operatives of the Divisional Police headquarters in Mbieri moved to Umudafa, Awo Mbieri, Mbaitoli LGA, in a house belonging to one Osita Ezuruike,45, and met the lifeless body of the said Osita hanging. The reason for taking his own life could not be ascertained.
“However, the corpse has been removed to the morgue, while investigation into the incident has commenced.”
