Serial killings resurface in Suhum

Suhum(E/R), April 6, GNA - An 18-year-old third year Science Student of the Suhum Senior High School (SHS), William Owardie, was found lying dead in a pool of blood behind the Suhum Local Authority school building at the week-end

Police sources told Ghana News Agency that the deceased and the father, Mr Dickson Adjei, District Valuation Officer in- charge of Suhum-Kraboa Coaltar District and also Elder of Deeper Life Church Ministry, attended Easter convention at Suhum Women Vocational Training Institute Park.

He said during the break the deceased, who is the Youth Leader of the Church, asked the father to give him money to buy food. The sources said the father gave him five Ghana cedis to buy some food items and go to the house and prepare food so that his younger brothers could also eat.

The sources said the deceased on his way to the house received a call from a friend and never returned to the convention but later his body was found dead behind the school building.

In another development, a 25-year-old cement seller was on Easter Monday morning attacked by some unknown people who inflicted cutlass wounds on him. The attackers inflicted cutlass wounds on Yaw Owusu, removed one of his ears and thought he was dead. He is now admission at the Suhum Government Hospital. When the police at Suhum was contacted, a spokesman confirmed the story and said police are investigating the recent killings. Four people, including two school children, have been killed at Suhum within a week.