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A young man has been found hanging from a tree in the Adamawa State capital, Yola.
Residents of Rumde, a community in Jimeta, the administrative centre of metropolitan Yola, woke up Saturday morning to find the youth hanging lifelessly.
Some among the residents said they had performed the early morning Islamic prayer with the youth.
They could not say why he decided to take his life.
Adamawa Police Public Relations Officer, SP Suleiman Nguroje, said in a statement that investigations had started on the incident.
He said that following a report received about “a young boy that hanged himself around Rumde Baru, Yola North Local Government Area, the Command’s crime officers were deployed by the Commissioner of Police.”
He explained that the crime officers were working in collaboration with medical experts to investigate the circumstances leading to the commission of the act.
(TheNation)
