Own Correspondent| A Craneborne man has committed suicide this morning after weeks of clashing with his wife who is believed to have left the husband for another man.

The man whose identity has not yet been confirmed hanged himself in the house along Munroe road in Craneborne while his wife was in Avondale where she is believed to be staying with a boyfriend.

When ZimEye arrived at the house, scores of shocked people were gathered outside the gate while the man’s children were crying uncontrollably.

Police had been called but were not yet at the scene.

One of the neighbors said the man told his wife to come back home as he did not want his marriage to break.

“The wife left him for another man and he had always said he did not want his marriage to collapse, he twice tried to commit suicide but we talked to him to change his mind,” said one of the neighbors.

Another neighbor said a tenant who once stayed in the cottage committed suicide sometime back, suggesting the house could be hounded by the spirit of suicides.

The man left behind three children with older one a girl doing form 3.