MUST student commits suicide over laptop

DEATH

Shock engulfed residents of Kitebero cell, Katete ward in Nyamitanga Division, Mbarara Municipality when they found a student of Mbarara University of Science Technology (MUST) dead in her room on Monday night.

Samson Kasasira, the Rwizi region police spokesperson, confirmed this on Tuesday evening.

He identified the student as Asala Villian aged, 25, who hails from Nvura County in Arua district. He said the deceased has been pursuing a computer related course.

Kasasira revealed that they were called by the Asala's neighbours who peeped in her room through the window and saw her hanging on the rope before they made an alarm.

"This student committed suicide on Monday evening at around 7:00pm and we were called at around 8:00pm, we found the body hanging on a new rope and took it for postmortem at Mbarara regional referral hospital," said Kasasira.

Her relatives apprarently took the body on Tuesday to her ancestral home in Arua.

However, Kasasira told New Vision that Asala allegedly had a mental problem and she was admitted at the psychiatric ward at Mbarara referral hospital around 2016/2017. She was later taken to Butabika hospital in Kamapala.

"When she fell sick, her relatives applied for a dead year at MUST and she had resumed in August, but we have been told that about two weeks ago, some unknown people stole her laptop, which we think caused her to commit suicide.

"Her friends at MUST saw her with a rope on Sunday in her bag but she told them she was going to use it as hang line for her clothes, and that's the last time they saw her," Kasasire added.