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Patrick Chitumba Midlands Bureau
A 40-year-old man who had just returned from Australia committed suicide by drinking insecticide while booked at a lodge in Gweru. Police in Gweru confirmed the death of Mr Tichaona Zimucha. Family spokesperson and ZRP Assistant Commissioner Dr Macdonald Zimucha said Tichaona had recently returned from Australia where he had settled with his family. On his return, he booked at the lodge (name withheld) for over a week before he was found dead one morning.

“I got a call to the effect that Tichaona Zimucha my relative had committed suicide while booked at a lodge in Gweru,” said Asst Comm Zimucha. “He had just returned from Australia where he left his family.”

Asst Comm Zimucha said Tichaona was last seen during the evening of September 22 while entering his room at the lodge.“The next morning around 10am, lodge workers smelled a strong stench from his room before they opened it using a spare key,” he said. “They found him dead. He was taken for post-mortem and results indicated that he drank some insecticide. We are still in the dark as to why he decided to take his life that way.”

Lodge employees speaking on condition of anonymity said when they opened Tichaona’s room, they found him dead with three bottles of Dimethoate besides him, one open and half full. Asst Comm Dr Zimucha said Tichaona was buried last week at Mutasa Cemetery in Gweru.