Police are investigating an incident in which a rotting body of a man aged 27 was found in his house in Umoja area, Nairobi.
Residents told the police there was a bad smell coming from the house of Raphael Onyango and his door was locked from the inside on December 1.
Police visited the house and broke his door and found the body lying facing upward with a knife stab wound on the chest.
Police termed the incident as suicide because the door had been locked from the inside indicating no other person accessed the room.
There was no note found in the house. The scene was processed and the body moved to the mortuary.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise in the past months in an alarming rate amid calls to address the trend.
Police say they record a suicide case almost daily in incidents across the country.
Most of the victims are men.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says such cases are attributed to joblessness, the breakup of relationships or a death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties, financial difficulties, bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder.
