Kuwaiti police are investigating the death of an expatriate found hanged to death in a shared residence.

The incident was recently discovered in the Hawalli governorate south of Kuwait City after authorities received a report about a request for medical assistance.

But when the paramedics arrived, they found out that an expatriate aged 58 already dead inside the bathroom of a shared apartment with a rope around his neck, a security source said.

“After the expatriate’s death was confirmed, police and public prosecution were notified, as the forensic evidence personnel suspected that the incident might be a murder,” the source added.

Accordingly, police have kept in custody an expatriate, the dead person’s roommate, who had reported the incident.

The roommate said in interrogations that he believed that financial reasons were behind the suicide.

He added that his colleague had complained to him about his family’s demands for money that he could not afford.

Forensic evidence personnel are to examine the body and the site where it was found to determine whether there is any criminal suspicion, or the expatriate had committed suicide.

Two deaths

Kuwaiti media has recently reported about suicide-induced deaths.

Last month, two expatriates took their lives in Kuwait. In one incident, an expatriate chauffeur, was found dead after he had hanged himself inside the house where he had worked in the Fintas area in Al Ahmadi governorate, according to Al Anba newspaper.

The man’s death was reported to police by his Kuwaiti employer. On heading to the place, a medical emergency team found the expat, who was in his 30s, already dead.  After his death, the expat’s phone kept ringing, a matter that presumably meant his suicide was due to family problems.

In a separate incident, a domestic helper took her own life in Al Salam suburb of the Kuwait City, Al Rai newspaper reported.

Her death was reported to police by her sponsor after he had discovered her body dangling from a rope on his house rooftop.

Source Gulf News