Zambia’s Breeze FM journalist Alfred Zulu commits suicide after being sent home for drunkeness
CHIPATA-(MaraviPost)-A 43-year-old Zambian Breeze FM journalist in Chipata has committed suicide, a day after he was sent back home for allegedly reporting for work in a drunken state.
Alfred Zulu, who was head of programmes at the radio station, died on Sunday after hanging himself in the living room at his house located in Moth Township.
On Saturday, his wife, Tandiwe Msimuko, 28, was admitted to Kapata Clinic for stomach pain and vomiting.
“The now deceased remained home alone, and was only found hanging by the sister, who picked his three months old baby girl from the sick wife at Kapata Clinic to go and bath at the deceased’s home in Moth,” Eastern Province deputy police commanding officer Stephen Mayoko said.
“She found the doors locked and people had to force the door to open after they peeped through the window and saw him hanging.”
Mr Mayoko said police picked the body and took it to Chipata Central Hospital awaiting burial as police suspect no foul play.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
