A public servant hanged himself in a rooftop fire pump room of a residential building in Rua de Coimbra in Nape, the Judiciary Police (PJ) said in a statement yesterday.
The statement identified the deceased as a 35-year-old male surnamed Wong.
According to the statement, PJ officers went to the building to investigate another case, when they found Wong.
The statement said firefighters alerted by the Judiciary Police arrived at the scene at 18:23 p.m. yesterday and confirmed that Wong had hanged himself with a rope from an iron railing.
According to the statement, there were visible strangulation marks on the neck of the deceased, and the PJ officers confirmed that the marks on Wong’s neck matched the rope he had used to hang himself.
No suspicious injuries were found, nor were there any signs of a struggle found at the scene, the statement said.
However, no suicide note was found at the scene, the statement said.
The statement said that a post-mortem examination will be performed.
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