A 20-Year old woman identified as Christine Ihideng was found hanging in her room in the Hai Battery residential area of Torit Town in South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria State.
Mustafa Albino Zacharia, the Mayor of Torit Municipal Council told Radio Tamazuj that the woman committed the act at 5 Am on Wednesday and that police were investigating the circumstances surrounding her death.
“A girl hanged herself in Hai Battery, and she was aged between 19-20 years old. The reason for her committing suicide is not known up to now because she hanged herself without telling anybody,” he said. “We don’t know why she hanged herself, it was the police who took her dead body and they did not tell us the report.”
James Monday Enoka, Eastern Equatoria State Police Commissioner confirmed the incident and attributed the case to harsh economic times.
“Even last week there were three cases of suicides. The rate of suicides in Eastern Equatoria is alarming. This is the first time seeing the rate of suicide very high like that because of trauma, poverty that is why I am appealing to other people to do the study,” he said.