Three people died by suicide in separate incidents reported to police in the country.
The incidents happened between Wednesday and Thursday, police said.
The first incident was reported on Wednesday in Nairobi’s Kayole area where a 29-year-old man identified as Meshack Ochieng hanged himself from the roof with a rope tied around the neck.
According to police, his brother Onyango went to check on him after receiving a text from Ochieng informing him to go and collect his body from the house and take it to the mortuary.
upon arrival, Onyango found the door locked from inside, the police report said.
Onyango peeped through the window and saw the body hanging from the roof with a fibre rope tied around the neck, police said.
Officers from Kayole Police Station processed the scene and necessary action was taken.
The body was moved to Chiromo Mortuary awaiting postmortem.
In the second incident, a man identified as Livingstone Onyancha in Nyamira, in Masosa village died by suicide.
The 35-year-old was found hanging on the roof truss of his house in the sitting room and is said to have used a mosquito net to take his life.
Preliminary investigations by police revealed that the deceased was last seen seemingly to be in good spirits before dying by suicide.
The scene was processed by police officers from Nyamira police station and the body was moved to Nyamira County Referral Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.
Elsewhere an unidentified man was found dead by suicide after hanging himself on a tree Kighombo village in Taita Taveta County.
According to police officers who rushed to the scene, the body was tied to a tree along the Mwamsha River. Mwatete Police officers visited the scene and necessary action was taken.
The body was moved to the Moi Referral Hospital morgue awaiting postmortem.
The case is pending investigation.