20 Sep 2022

Kanye police are investigating an incident in which the body of a 40-year-old man of Mafhikana ward in Kanye was found hanging from a tree on Sunday September 18.

In an interview, Kanye police station commander Superintendent Mmoloki Mogale said they received a missing person report the same day, and a search team which was dispatched found the body hanging from a tree behind Ketlogetswe primary school in Mafhikana ward.

“It is reported that he was last seen on September 14, but was only reported missing on September 18 after the family could not establish his whereabouts. The search party later found the decomposed body hanging from a tree behind Ketlogetswe primary school,” he said.

He said post-mortem was conducted on the scene and the decomposed body was handed to the family to be buried the following day, while police investigations into the matter continue.

“Since the body was already decomposed, we engaged pathologists to conduct post-mortem at the scene before handing it over to the family for burial on Monday. We did not find any suicide note and our investigations are ongoing to establish if there was any foul play,” he noted.

In another incident, Supt. Mogale said a 26-year-old man was currently recovering at Seventh Day Adventist Hospital following an attempted suicide in the wee hours of September 19.

“We received a report that the man had sent a message to his family members that he wanted to commit suicide and the police went to his rented house in Sebego ward, where they found him looking sickly with packets of pills next to him,” he explained.

He said since the man was suspected to have overdosed on the pills, he was rushed to the hospital for medical attention while counselling would also be arranged for him. 

He said the man was alone at the time of the incident hence they were yet to establish what transpired.

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