CBU student hangs self to death

A 24-year-old fourth year medical student from Copperbelt University (CBU) on the Copperbelt has committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree.

Jordan Simwizye whose body was found almost in a decomposed state is suspected to have taken his life due owing a lot of people money.

Copperbelt commanding officer Peacewell Mweemba confirmed the incident saying the matter is believed to have occurred on Saturday when the deceased went missing according to his aunt.

“Brief Facts of the matter are that the reporter, being a security guard who found the body was in a company of his friends and as they were doing some patrols around CBU premises here in Ndola and it so happened that they came across a dead body of a male person hanging on the tree.

“The matter was later reported to police who in turn visited the scene and confirmed the incident the deceased hanged himself using a rope,” he said.

Mweemba said after inspecting the body which was a bit decomposed, a phone was found on the deceased and the same was used to communicate with the relatives to the deceased and the deceased was later identified by his aunt Adess Mwewa of Lubuto township in Ndola.

“According to the identifier (Aunt to the deceased) the deceased went missing on Saturday around 15:00hours.

“Reasons for committing suicide is not known as no document/note was found on the deceased body which contained any reasons for his action however, the aunt to the deceased strongly suspects that her nephew (deceased) decided to take his life because of credits he had of different people,” he said.

Mweemba said the body of the deceased has since been deposited at Ndola Teaching Hospital mortuary awaiting possible postmortem and burial.