The Police in Imo state have successfully rescued a female staff of the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, from committing suicide.
An eye witness has exclusively disclosed to the News Agency of Nigeria how the police in Imo state on Tuesday, rescued a female staff of the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, from committing suicide.
It was gathered that the woman who is in her early 40s, climbed a water tank stanchion, about the height of a three-storey building, from where she threatened to jump down.
The witness said the woman was shouting at the top of the stanchion before people in the neighbourhood noticed her.
The concerned neighbours alerted two policemen who climbed the facility and convinced the woman to come down.
The public relations officer of the Imo state police command, Andrew Enwerem, confirmed the incident, and said the woman attempted to take her life but was rescued unhurt by policemen who were invited by her neighbours.
“The woman climbed a high water tank stanchion as early as 6 a.m. and was shouting on top of her voice that she was frustrated and tired of life,” he said
According to him, preliminary information obtained showed that she was a staff of the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri.
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