A 20-year-old man in Mangochi who was reported missing last Sunday has been found dead.

Mangochi Police Station spokesperson, Inspector Amina Tepani Daudi, disclosed that the body of Jambulani Nyekanyeka was found floating yesterday at Maudzu village along Lake Malawi.

According to Daudi, Jabulani and his friends went swimming at the lake on Sunday using two vehicles, but when they arrived, each team assumed he was in the other vehicle, only to realize that their friend was missing after returning home.

After postmortem conducted at Mangochi District hospital, it was revealed that Nyekanyeka died due to suffocation.

He hailed from Nkolimbo Village, Traditional Authority Kwataine in Ntcheu district.