A hangman's noose. [Photo/ukzambians.co.uk]
A 9-year-old boy committed suicide after losing in a game of cards a few days to his 10the birthday celebrations, the family has said.
The standard three pupils called Silas Charo hanged himself with a rope in his room.
Charo was playing with his friends in Mtondia Village in Kilifi County when he lost the game.“His mother had told me of her plans to buy him a cake and all the preparations were set only for me to get a call that he had committed suicide,” said his father Mr Erastus Charo.
According to his father, the Mtondia primary school pupil came home dejected after he lost in a game of cards with friends where once beaten each player had to surrender his cashew nuts to the winner.
“His friends refused to give him back his cashew nuts when he requested for them even after he lost the game. I wonder why he decided to kill himself. Everyone is shocked here,” Mr Charo said.
Kilifi OCPD Alex Makau confirmed the incident and said they were still treating it as a matter of suicide.
"The information we have is that the boy committed suicide as he was found hanging in the room but our investigations are on to establish what exactly happened,” said Makau.