Fawohoyeden (Western Region) - A 29-year old housewife, Abena Dagarti, last Saturday allegedly shot herself dead with her husband's locally manufactured pistol at Fawohoyeden village near Dadieso in the Western Region.

Police Inspector George Awuku and Police Detective A. C. Ahiaku told reporters that Dagarti, who was nursing a four-month old baby, allegedly stole 46,000 cedis belonging to her mother-in-law.

The Police said when her husband Kwabena Yeboah confronted her Abena admitted stealing the money. Yeboah then asked her to refund the money and she agreed, but instead, she entered their room, picked her husband's loaded gun and shot herself.

In another development, a 28-year-old widow, Abena Martha of Nyamedoma, a village near Akontombra-Nkwanta in the Aowin-Suman District, last Sunday committed suicide by drinking an insecticide (DDT).

The decease's father Togbe Gbehu, told the Police that Abena, whose husband died about three years ago, stayed with her relative at Ahafo in the Brong-Ahafo Region. She returned a couple of weeks ago and came to lodge with him. Togbe Gbehu said Abena was alleged to have stolen a travelling bag belonging to the relative at Ahafo when she left Nyamedoma.

He said on hearing about the theft he advised her to return the bag. However, Togbe on the night of the same day Abena drank the insecticide and was found dead the next morning with a DDT container by her side.