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There is a new wave of suicide sweeping across the country. Within the last couple of weeks, people who have decided to end it all have adopted a rather painful way of taking their lives by slashing their throats. Three people in recent times have, in the bid to take their lives, slashed their throats with sharp objects. Residents of Golf City near Michel Camp in Tema say they are yet to come to terms with the death of a 25-year-old man who committed suicide by slashing his throat with a knife and stabbing other parts of his body. Kwaku Tsey, a resident of Saki, a suburb of Golf City, according to information gathered by DAILY GUIDE, ran out of his family home to a house in the vicinity, shouting �someone wants to kill me.� He reportedly kept calling for help before finally using a sharp knife to slash the upper part of his throat. Confirming the incident to DAILY GUIDE, Ashaiman Police District Police Commander, Superintendent Peter Kobina noted that last Tuesday, at about 7:30am, the deceased rushed into the house of a certain Yayra Lavoe at Golf City who was then dressing a chicken to prepare a meal for her younger sister to take to school. Perhaps startled on seeing the deceased who had barged into her house without a shirt, sweating and panting, she took to her heels, abandoning the chicken and knife on the floor, he narrated. The commander said Tsey, who was left alone at this point, suddenly picked up the knife and started slashing his throat and stabbing his lap and chest to the amazement of the woman who watched from a distance. Supt. Kobina added that the deceased left the house with the blood-stained knife and started running again as if to confirm that �somebody� was indeed chasing him. The police commander said the mother of the deceased, Alice Akuyo, a trader at the Tema market who got wind of the incident, mobilized some men who assisted in capturing and rushing him to the Tema General Hospital for treatment. According to the police, he died shortly after being admitted. His body has since been deposited at the hospital�s mortuary pending autopsy. Information available to DAILY GUIDE indicates that he felt somehow abandoned by his wife and some of his relations when it was discovered that he had Elephantiasis. He was alleged to have said he did not think he wanted to live any longer, especially when he was still unemployed. The situation, according to a source, became too much for him to bear, hence his actions which subsequently brought his life to an unexpected end. In another development, a 50-year-old man at Pewodie, a village near Adansi Anwiaso in the Ashanti region, attempted suicide by slitting his throat with a razor blade at a cocoa farm in the area, after he had recited some incantations. Kwadwo Ababio, a farmer and resident of Akrofuom, said he decided to end his life because the people in his community disliked him. He was saved by a cocoa farmer, who saw him on time and reported his bloody conduct to the chief of Pewodie who took him to the New Edubiase Government Hospital, after the chief�s subjects had gone to his (Ababio�s) rescue. An Obuasi Circuit Court presided over by Gilbert Ayisi Addo has since remanded the 50-year-old to prison custody to reappear in court today for trial on the charge of attempted suicide, contrary to section 57 of Act 29/60. Inspector Albert Anani, police prosecutor, informed the court that the complainants were police officers at Adansi Anwiaso police station, while the accused is a farmer and resident of Akrofuom. According to him, on April 16, 2011 at about 8:45am, one Yaw Nkyi, who is a witness in the case, visited his cocoa farm at Pewodie. Prosecution stated that while the witness was working in his farm, he heard someone reciting incantations from one end of the cocoa farm. Nkyi, who became curious, moved towards the direction of the incantation where he found the accused kneeling with blood all over his body. Horrified by the incident, Inspector Anani narrated, the witness quickly ran back to the community and informed the chief about the incident, after which he also mobilized his subjects and proceeded to the scene. Prosecution disclosed that the people found the accused with multiple razor blade cuts on his throat and blood on his entire body. He was sent to the Anwiaso Police Station before being taken to the hospital where he was treated. Inspector Anani said Ababio told police officers that he had wanted to end his life because the people in his community disliked him. Another farmer at Asukese near Mim in the Brong Ahafo region, Kwadwo Addai, who tried to kill his wife by butchering her, was sentenced to 25 years� imprisonment by the Goaso Circuit Court after his failed bid to commit suicide by slashing his throat. The Circuit Court Judge, Osei Kwame, sentenced Kwadwo Addai on account of attempting suicide and causing unlawful harm.