A US Embassy official’s body was found hanging in Nairobi hotel
The body of a senior officer at the US Embassy in Nairobi was found hanging in his hotel room on Wednesday.
In what Kenyan officials believe to be a suicide, police said the body of the unidentified officer was found in the hotel near the Village Market, a large shopping and recreation complex in Nairobi after he failed to report to work.
Witnesses of the incident said he apparently used a belt to commit the act.
A suicide note was found near the bed and will be investigated. A police officer who was at the scene in a statement said that “The body was found hanging near the room window. He seemed to have died long before security arrived there.”
Police were called by embassy officials after they checked in on him when he failed to show up for work to relieve a colleague and didn’t answer calls.
“We can confirm the death of a US government employee. US Embassy Nairobi extends its deepest condolences to the family and loved ones of the deceased,” an embassy rep said.
