Arguing and accusing wife of cheating, husband hanging himself when Sahur

TASIKMALAYA, KOMPAS.com – A man with the initial OP (30), a resident of Kampung Legok Nangka, Bungursari District, Tasikmalaya City, West Java, was found dead on Saturday (05/09/2020) early in the morning.

OP suspected suicide at dawn.

He was found in a hanging position in his store.

The man is known to have quarreled and accused his wife AI (24) of having an affair.

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The commotion occurred when the OP had just returned from working as a stone divider on Friday night.

This incident shocked local residents, because the alleged suicide case occurred just before the fasting break during the month of Ramadan.

“Initially we received reports from residents, we went to the crime scene and discovered that the victim had died by hanging himself with a rope in his store,” Chief of Police Indihiang Tasikmalaya Police Station Kompol Moch Bashori said Saturday morning.

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According to the testimony of a witness, the incident started when the victim returned home and immediately quarreled with his wife.

According to witnesses, the OP even bit his hand and hit his wife’s face.

Hearing the OP wife’s scream, the neighbors came out and tried to intervene.

Supposedly out of embarrassment, the OP immediately ran out of the house near a well in the plantation area in front of his house.

Neighbors saw the OP carrying a rope and a knife.

“Later, the local RT Chief came along with other residents to intervene in the incident. But the victim ran to the well in the plantation area in front of the house while carrying the mine and a knife,” Bashori said.

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