- Safiu Kehinde
A yet-to-be identified man has committed suicide by drinking poison moment after abandoning plan to hang himself from a balcony.
The initial suicide attempted captured in a video shared on X on Wednesday showed the moment he scaled the balcony of a one-storey building with a rope strapped around his neck.
He however abandoned the plot as he struggled to pull himself back up before storming back into the house.
Unknown to onlookers who were laughing while he attempted to hang himself, the man went back into the house to drink poison.
Subsequent post shared on X showed him lying lifeless on the floor with his mouth stained with palm oil suspected to have been administered to him in a bid to neutralise the poison.
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