A 33 year old teacher at Mboma primary school in Ntchitsi known as Thomas Chaponda has committed suicide by hanging himself in his house.

Police spokesperson in Ntchisi Salomy Zgambo confirmed about Chaponda’s death saying that the teacher was staying alone.

Zgambo said on 27 May Chaponda went to work but later in the evening he was seen drunk.

“The following day in the morning, his neighbor heard him crying but when the neighbor went to ask him what was wrong Chaponda didn’t say anything” said Zgambo.

He also said that the same day in the afternoon his fellow teachers went to his house to check up on him but they found him crying and he didn’t say what was wrong with him, he kept on crying.

Zgambo said that after some hours the teacher was found hanging in his house.

Hospital reports at Malomo Health Center shows that Chaponda dead because of suffocation.

Chaponda hailed from Makupo village Traditional Authority Kaomba in Kasungu and he was also upgrading his studies at Domasi College in Zomba.