MAN HANGS HIMSELF NEAR STUDENT’S RESIDENTS

By John Mubayi

MASHAVA:There was panic and terror amongst students as a dead body was found hanging to a tree nearly 50 meters from the student’s residential area at Great Zimbabwe University’s Mashava Campus.

Local residents who gave information on condition of uknownimity identified the victim as ‘mudhara Zuva’ confirming that the old man had been ill for quit sometime and it was shocking how he had ended his life.

Another local resident said that “the victim went out with an axe on the afternoon of April 3, 2015 and came back with a few sticks and no one figured out that he was making his hanging noose from the tree bucks”.

It is believed that the man hanged himself on the 3^rd of April and his body was discovered the following day by local herd boy, a few meters from the student’s residential site.

Students who live near the seen were in great shock and could not believe their eyes, one of the students who identified himself as T.K. said “it is shocking how the man ended his life and I still get the shivers from thinking that it happend only a few meters from my house”.

Mashava police refused to comment on the situation saying that they needed more information about what had just happened to make a comment.

The victim is believed to have survived by a wife and four children although they could not be reached for a comment.