Torit man commits suicide over bride price
Residents of Torit town’s Malakia residential area were gripped by shock on Tuesday when their 20-year-old neighbor, Khamis Nartisio, was found hanging in his house after committing suicide occasioned by his failure to pay the bride price.
According to the police, the in-laws of the deceased had been demanding that he pay an elopement fee (kasurubet) which he could not raise, leading to him taking his own life.
Major Justine KelopusTakuru, the police spokesman in Torit told radio Tamazuj on Thursday, “There is a boy, young in age, he hanged himself at Hai Malakia and a complaint was placed and the police went and we went we found the boy called Khamis Nartisio about 20 years from Murle tribe a resident of Hai Malakia dead there.”