Pascalinah Kabi
A MAN was found hanging at a foot bridge at Ha ‘Mabolou, Thetsane yesterday morning in a development that shocked some of the residents who thronged the scene of the gruesome find.
The Lesotho Times visited the scene yesterday morning and found the lifeless body still hanging with the head and upper body covered with a brown shawl while the lower part was clad in black pair of trousers and brown shoes.
One of the residents said the deceased was an electrician and she had last seen him drinking at the local bar in the company of his friends the previous evening.
“Yesterday he was at the bar (name withheld) with his friends and he seemed fine to me. Whoever did this is very cruel,” the resident said.
She said the horrifying scene had left them in shock, especially school children who witnessed the scene on their way to school.
“We suspect he was brought here while on the verge of taking his last breath because by the look of things, he was trying to loosen the scuff using his left hand before dying. The ground doesn’t give any indication that he struggled much,” she said.
However, another resident said the deceased had told his drinking mates that he would commit suicide.
“We thought he was joking when he told us that he was going to kill himself because he had too many debts and that his siblings hated him.
“The whole bar was full when he started narrating how he was going to commit suicide by hanging himself at this same bridge. He went as far as asking us to teach him how to fasten a knot using the same scuff he is hanging with now.
“You can ask people who drink from that bar and they will tell you this guy (name withheld) told everyone who cared to listen that he was going to kill himself. But the following day he was appeared fine and we thought he was just joking or that maybe he had changed his mind. I think we should have taken him seriously,” he said.
Another resident added: “I think we should have taken him seriously because he looked very serious when he was saying all of those things. But we never thought anyone would tell people that they were going to commit suicide if they really meant it.”
Police spokesperson Senior Superintendent Clifford Molefe confirmed the man’s death.
“We received a report and attended the scene of crime but at the moment we don’t have much details,” he said.
