A 52-year-old Shizuoka prefectural official in charge of arranging training facilities for Senegal's national soccer team ahead of the upcoming World Cup finals committed suicide Saturday, police said Monday.

According to investigative sources, family members of Osamu Okamura, a chief in the sports promotion section of the Fujieda municipal office, found him hanging in his barn on Saturday morning.

He had used an electric cord to kill himself.

Okamura was rushed to a nearby hospital even though he was already dead, investigators said, adding he had left a suicide note at his home.