An 82-year-old pensioner of Tushen Housing Scheme, on the East Bank of Essequibo, hanged himself early Tuesday morning.
Reports reaching the Guyana Chronicle said the aged man, Sampersaud Rampersaud, committed suicide while his wife was washing clothes at the back of their one flat concrete and wooden house.
She raised an alarm when she saw his body hanging from a piece of rope at the front of the house, and neighbours rushed to her assistance.
The police were alerted, and the body was taken to a funeral home on the West Coast.
Police are investigating.