A 22-year-old student commuted suicide on Tuesday morning by hanging himself in Kathiani area, Mwala sub-county, Machakos county.
The incident was confirmed by Kibauni location chief Sebastian Ngungi who said that the young man who is a college student in Nairobi had been battling epilepsy for a long time.
Ngungi observed that the man had been seen around the shops in Kathiani on Monday night before he went missing only for his body to be found hanging on a tree a few metres from his home.
The chief advised parents to have a close relationship with their children in order to help when faced with problems to avoid such occurrences.
"By talking, people open up and issues get solved but parents nowadays are too busy to even talk to their kids", noted Ngungi.
The body was taken by police to Machakos level five hospital mortuary.