A man believed to be in his 30s has tragically lost his life in a suspected suicide incident in Ahafo Mim, located in the Asunafo North Municipal District of the Ahafo Region.

The incident occurred on Wednesday, May 23, 2023, around 9 am.

The deceased, identified as Kwame Peter, had left his shop but did not return to close it as the evening approached.

Concerned residents decided to check on him and went to his house, where they made a distressing discovery. It was found that he had taken his own life by hanging himself in his room.

“Yesterday in the morning, my son went to the shop, at about 4pm he informed some boys who were with him that he was coming home to pick up something. They waited for him till it started to get dark but he was not returning to close the shop. They kept calling his phone but he was not picking up. They followed up to his house and heard the phone ringing in his room.

“So they called a carpenter to break into the room and when they entered, he had placed a chair on the bed and hanged himself from the ceiling fan,” a sister of the deceased’s mother told 'Welcome to Ahafo' in an interview.

Relatives of the deceased who is a professional shoemaker said they are yet to identify the motive behind his death but suspect he committed suicide out of being jilted by his wife.

The police have since commenced investigation into the case after retrieving the body.