A 23 year old man from Dowa has committed suicide after a misunderstanding with his wife, police say.

According to a police report, the deceased has been identified as Takelo Kamwana, who hailed from Bweya village in the area of Traditional Authority Chakhaza in Dowa District.

“It is reported that, late Kamwana and his wife had marital misunderstanding over a romantic message from another woman which the wife saw in the deceased’s phone, “says Macpatson Msadala, Public Relations Officer Mponela Police Station.

He said, Kamwana was then discovered dead and hanging in a tree and the matter was reported to village Headman Bweya and later reported to Bowe police unit.

“The scene of crime was visited by Mponela Crime Investigations Department personnel in a company of medical officer from Bowe Health Centre who upon conducted postmortem revealed that the death was due to suffocation secondary to strangulation,”he added.