A suicide note was found in which Makandi apologised to her parents and relatives for the pain she had caused them
The note further requested that she be buried in the same grave as her sister, with the clothes she was wearing when she took her life, and that she should not be placed in a coffin
Her husband had planned to travel to his sister-in-law's funeral when he received the disturbing news of his wife's death and the shocking contents of the suicide note
Mourners in a village in Meru County are in shock after a 30-year-old woman died by suicide hours before her elder sister's funeral.
The body of Irene Makandi was found hanging from a tree outside her father's house in Katheri village on Wednesday morning as mourners prepared to go to the mortuary to collect the remains of her elder sister, Fridah Karwiro.
