A 26-year-old capital resident Sunday took his own life by stuffing sulphur, collected from matchsticks, into a pipe and lighting the stuff holding it on his right temple, published reports said.

Krishna Bahadur Adhikari, a self-trained mechanic by profession, committed suicide in his home in Swayambhu, Kathmandu, the Himalayan Times said quoting local police.

“As the stuffed sulphur burnt, it exploded on his head and scattered his skull bones all over his room,” said Damodar Ghimire, a police inspector at the ward police office, Swayambhu.

The room where Adhikari lived was a complete mess with a lot of matchboxes and stripped matchsticks lying all over, he said.

“The dead must have undergone severe frustration for a long time and took his time to prepare the explosive. This suicide case is really a strange one because of the method Adhikari used,” the police said.

Some people innovate new things to give life and some to take, said the daily in its remarks. “Adhikari innovated a new form of explosive and this time he was a guinea pig in the experiment he conducted.”