A septuagenarian and mother of nine children, described by neighbours as a devout Catholic faithful, has reportedly committed suicide by hanging in her residence at Enamejewa Street, off Warri/Sapele Road, Warri, in Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The gory incident which was said to have occurred in the early hours of Monday, November 6, has since thrown the entire residents of the neighbourhood into mourning.
Witnesses said the woman, whose name could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report, hanged herself with her wrapper in a public toilet of the compound where she lived.
Even though the woman who was simply identified as an indigene of Olomu Kingdom in Ughelli South Local Government Area did not leave behind any note as the probable cause of her action, it was gathered from locals that she had allegedly earlier threatened to take her own life to the hearing of her children.
It was further gathered that the woman had, to her threat, attempted to take her life by drinking a poisonous substance the previous day but was not successful.
But one of our sources stated that one of her little granddaughters raised the alarm which attracted other tenants and neighbours only to discover a lifeless, dangling body in the toilet.
Meanwhile, the woman’s corpse was said to have been deposited in the morgue of the Central Hospital, Warri.
When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer for Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, confirmed the tragic incident.
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