A 35-year-old man who threatened to die by suicide walked out of his house minutes later and jumped into a 25 feet deep borehole in Nairobi’s Riruta area.
Police said Peter Mwago had arrived home Wednesday evening and picked a quarrel with his wife before he threatened to die by suicide.
He then walked out of the house and plunged himself into a borehole that is within the residential compound.
The wife raised an alarm and locals with police arrived at the scene and retrieved him but found he had died.
The body was moved to the mortuary.
Police said they are investigating the incident.
This is the latest such suicide incident to be reported to police.
Police say up to three cases are reported daily which is alarming.
In Githogoro slums, a 24-year-old man stabbed and seriously injured himself in an attempt to die by suicide.
The man had complained in their house before he dashed outside to a vegetable vendor and picked up a knife.
He then walked to his mother’s house where he stabbed himself in the stomach, rupturing the intestines that hung as he was being rushed to the hospital, police and witnesses said.
He is admitted to hospital following the Wednesday evening incident.
Elsewhere in Ngumba estate, police are investigating an incident in which a five-month-old baby died in a family house.
The child was in the care of a house help when she died on Wednesday.
The parents told police they left the baby with the household and on coming back they found the boy unconscious and rushed him to hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
In Ruia, a man was found dead in his house.
The body of Oliver Alulu was found on his bed with vomit next to it.
His door was open when police arrived there to pick up the body.
The cause of the death is yet to be known, police said.
