Two person have committed suicide by hanging in two separate incidents in the Ashanti Region within 24-hours, MyNewsGh.com has confirmed.

The first incident involved a 70-year-old farmer from Adansi Nsese in the Edubiase District who was reportedly missing according to relations.

It is gathered that a search party started looking for Charles Mustapha and after several hours, his lifeless body was found hanging on a cocoa tree with a yellow nylon rope around his neck fastened to the tree in a cocoa farm.

An official complaint was lodged with the police who visited the scene and conveyed the body to New Edubiase Government Hospital mortuary for preservation.