A Syrian national who had lived in Sokoto for more than four decades has died in what police suspect to be a case of suicide after allegedly ingesting insecticide.
This was made known in an X post shared by security analyst and counter-insurgency expert, Zagazola Makama, on Friday.
Police said the Divisional Police Officer received a distress call from one Tukur Registrer, who relayed information from a 16-year-old boy, Ahmad Aliyu of the Gagi area.
Aliyu had reportedly rushed into a mosque to alert worshippers that his employer, identified as Abdulrahman Badenjki, was found consuming mosquito insecticide.
Responding swiftly, the DPO and his team arrived at the residence, where they discovered Badenjki unconscious on his bed.
A container of Executor mosquito insecticide was said to have been found on a blue plastic chair beside him.
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Officers documented and secured the scene before the victim was transported to the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH).
A police source said the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department has visited the scene and taken over the case to unravel the circumstances surrounding the suspected suicide.