A 42-year-old man has been found dead in one of the lodges at Kamuzu Road in Salima in what the police say is a case of suicide.

Spokesperson for Salima police station, Jacob Khembo has identified the deceased as Percy Chikwera from Khosa village in traditional authority Chadza in Lilongwe.

Khembo has told our reporter that the deceased (pictured) had left his home in Area 23 in Lilongwe on Monday this week and he never returned.

He added that Chikwera was today found hanging in one of the rooms at a lodge and postmortem results at Salima district hospital revealed that death was due to suffocation, secondary to strangulation.