A 45-year-old accountant at Mangochi District Council Nicholas Thole has died after hanging himself inside his house on Wednesday.

Mangochi Police Station spokesperson Amina Tepani Daudi said Thole hanged himself soon after being told to appear before management in relation to the social cash transfer program.

“Principal of the said office Patrick Cholopi, informed him about the cash transfer program request forms which he was taking to be signed by management and requested to see him thereafter,” Daudi said.

“Few minutes later the principal came back to Thole’s office but did not find him only to be told that he went home to remove his clothes from the clothesline.”

“After an hour of waiting, Cholopi called Thole’s number several times and it went unanswered which prompted him and other colleagues to check him at his house.”

Daudi said Thole did not leave any suicide note and the reasons for taking his own life are not known.

He hailed from Mchacha Village Traditional Authority Malemia in Nsanje.