A 21-year-old student from one of the universities has been found dead after a suspected suicide incident at an apartment he lived in Thika.
Ryan Kitari’s body was Wednesday morning found hanging on the wall of the upper floor of the apartment where he lived.
He left a suicide note detailing why he took the move.
Other colleagues at the university and locals thronged the scene on Wednesday on learning about the incident.
Police arrived at the scene and picked the body to the mortuary pending autopsy and other investigations.
In the note, Ryan Kitari detailed his struggles with financial hardship, academic pressure, personal trauma and his past as the reasons for the move.
Colleagues and friends took to social media to mourn the death of the University student.
Elsewhere, two people including a minor died by suicide in separate incidents.
The first incident happened in Mathare slums in Nairobi where a 10-year-old boy was found dead in their house after a suspected suicide incident.
His mother told police she had on Tuesday gone to Kileleshwa for casual labour and when she came back she found her door locked from inside.
She pushed the door and upon entry she found her stepson, 10, hanging dead with a rope around his neck.
The motive is yet to be known.
In Kahuro, Murang’a County, at Kirigo police station, a suspect identified as Ideon Njuguna Kariuki, 41 reportedly hanged himself in the cells.
The body of Ideon Njuguna Kariuki was found hanging from the ventilation grills tied with a piece of blanket.
The suspect had been arrested at the Wandia area by the area chief Wanjengi location.
The suspect was the only person in the cells at the time of the incident.
The body was moved to Muriranjas Sub-county Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.
Cases of suicide have been on the rise in the recent past.