Own Correspondent|A 20 year old University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student has died after drinking rat-poison on breaking up with her boyfriend.

Elsie Muchemedzi committed suicide on the 4th of December.

Questioned immediately after taking the poison, she told her parents that she could not bear the pain of being separated from her ex-boyfriend.

She later died at West End Hospital.

She was buried in Murehwa last week.