A taxi driver believed to be in his mid 30s and only identified as Aye has committed suicide at Half Assini in Jomoro district of the Western Region.
Philomena Yirankyi a resident of the area disclosed to the media that, the deceased who was married to a certain Tayiba committed the act on Saturday morning, March 11, 2017.
“A food vendor in the area told the police that he came there earlier this morning and said he wanted to buy some food but was told the food was not ready only to be told at about 6:00 A. M that he committed suicide by hanging on mango tree at Peace Town a suburb of the area”
The body has since been deposited at the Half Assini government hospital.
Police confirmed the incident to the media and disclosed that investigations into the incident have since commenced.
Ghana has recorded four suicide incidents within the last four weeks, a development the Health Ministry had described as worrying.
The incident which rapidity has confounded health officials started with a first year Chemical Engineering student of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) taking her life on February 24, 2017
Adwoa Agyarka Anyimadu-Antwi, 18, was reported to have taken a concoction identified as hazardous after which she hanged herself with a rope in her hostel room.
This was followed by the discovery of a lifeless body of a 16-year-old girl at New Tafo in the Eastern Region.
The teenager whose name has since not been identified was said to have been discovered by her mother in their kitchen on March 8, 2017 with a rope tied around her neck.
Although it was unclear what might have driven a junior high school student to take her own life, her colleagues said she was unwell.
On the same day, a final year student of the University of Ghana, Legon was found lying in a pool of blood after allegedly jumping from the 4th floor of the Akuafo hall.
Jennifer Nyarko a resident of Akuafo Hall Annex A in room 407 was said to have been battling with high fever, but it has not been established if she deliberately fell over.
Also, on Thursday, March 9, 2017 a lifeless body of a man said to be in his mid-twenties was discovered hanging on a tree at Old Achimota, a suburb of Accra.
Tesano District Police Commander, DSP Edward Tetteh, said their preliminary investigations revealed the deceased was at a betting house hours before the incident happened.
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