A 21-year-old man identified as Sunday Orime on Thursday night committed suicide at his residence in Mile 3 Diobu area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
Our reporter could not ascertain the reason the deceased, an apprentice mechanic, took his life, but the Chief Security Officer of Nkpolu Oroworukwo community, in Port Harcourt, Comrade Godstime Ihunwo, who confirmed the incident, said he received a distress call from residents around 8pm.
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Ihunwo said on hearing about the incident, he quickly rushed down to the compound before contacting the police.
He said Orime’s corpse had been deposited in a mortuary.
The spokesperson for the Rivers State Police Command, DSP Grace Iringe Koko, promised to get back to our correspondent with comments on the incident, but was yet to do so as of the press time.
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