Grief as grandmother hangs herself in Anambra State

The grandmother, identified as Uzoaku, was said to have hung herself with a rope which she suspended on the burglary proof of the window in her room.

It was gathered that the deceased was cooking in the kitchen around 4 pm when she suddenly abandoned the food and dashed to the bedroom where she took her life.

A neighbour, Isaac Umeh, who described the incident as regrettable, wondered why a grandmother would take such a drastic decision.

He said the deceased was alone at home when the ugly incident happened.

“Nobody was around except her. The food she was cooking was still on fire when she suddenly abandoned it and rushed into the room where she used a rope to hang herself on a window protector.”

“The whole thing is still a shock to us because nobody believed a woman of her age with grandchildren can take her life that way,” he said.

The younger brother to the deceased, Fredrick Nwenu, who accommodated her while alive, said the news came to him as a shock, insisting that there was no reason for her elder sister to take her life, having trained her two children to university level.

“She has two children who are university graduates. In fact, the daughter is happily married with kids. So she has no reason whatsoever to commit suicide” he added.

Sympathisers were to have been consoling the family on their loss.

Sourced from daily post