- Police classified the incident as suicide. It happened near the USIU University Wednesday, February 22.
- Suicide is a leading cause of death nowadays, officials say.
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Police are investigating an incident in which an unknown man died after he fell from the 12th floor of a building in Kasarani area, Nairobi.
Police classified the incident as suicide. It happened near the USIU University Wednesday, February 22.
Police were called and informed a person had fallen off the structure and was lying in a supine position.
The body had a fractured skull and brain particles spilled all over the parking area.
The body was moved to the mortuary pending identification and autopsy.
Also, a 29-year-old woman died by suicide after a domestic quarrel in Kasarani area.
Preliminary findings show Brenda Kawira Gitonga jumped off the fourth floor of an apartment she and her boyfriend stayed in on Tuesday night after a brief quarrel.
The boyfriend told police they had an argument before the woman walked out of their bedroom to the balcony.
After a while, he said, he heard a loud thud and when he went to check her in the sitting room, kitchen and other rooms she was nowhere to be seen.
He then decided to go to the balcony when he saw her body sprawled on the ground floor.
Their neighbours rushed her to the Uzima hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police visited the scene whereby they found the deceased at the back seat of the car with visible injuries and bruises on her right thigh, left neck, left cheek and lower limb.
Police said they are investigating the incident. The body was moved to the mortuary pending autopsy.
In Zimmerman Kwa Masai area, a body of a man was found hanging from the balcony of the first floor after suicide.
Police visited the scene and found the body of Geoffrey Gachago Mbothe, 30 hanging with a piece of a bed sheet around his neck on the balcony.
His wife told police the man had two weeks ago posted on his status that he would kill himself but family members intervened and solved the matter that was in contention.
Come Tuesday, the couple had some disagreement that prompted the woman to leave the house and spent the night at her nice house at Kahawa West, which is suspected to have prompted the suicide mission.
Police say they recorded seven cases of suicide on Wednesday alone terming the trend alarming.
The other cases were reported in Muthangari, Menengai, Kaptembwo, Mauche in Njoro, Imbiakalo in Kakamega and Akala in Siaya.
The bodies of the victims are lying in mortuaries pending an autopsy.
Suicide incidents have been on the rise in the past few days at an alarming rate.
Suicide is a leading cause of death nowadays, officials say.
The World Health Organization says such cases are attributed to joblessness, death, academic failures or pressures, legal difficulties and financial difficulties.
Other reasons are bullying, previous suicide attempts, history of suicide in a family, alcoholism and substance misuse, depression and bipolar disorder.
WHO rates suicide as a serious global public health issue that is among the top 20 leading causes of death worldwide.