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A Harare man yesterday survived a jump from the top of Tanganyika Building at the corner of 3rd Street and Kwame Nkrumah Avenue while attempting to commit suicide.
His fall was broken by the roofing of a small building structure underneath which absorbed the landing impact.
Video clips of the incident, which have since gone viral on social media platforms, show the man on top of the Tanganyika Building being urged not to kill himself.
He was injured on the jaw and suffered a broken arm.
Information gathered by this publication is that the man jumped off the building after claiming that he was being burnt by invisible assailants. However, another witness said he wanted to die because of his wife.
He was reportedly heard screaming, “better ndife hangu, pane kuhurigwa nemunhu andakabvisa mumadhaka,” translated; I’d rather die than to see someone I helped a lot dating other men.
The man, whose identity is not yet known, removed his t-shirt before jumping 8 floors down. The man fortunately survived and was ferried to the hospital.