Thousands throng Manhyia:

Mourners in long winding queues could not pay their last respects to the late Otumfuo Opoku Ware the second, Asantehene by 1800 hours yesterday, the official deadline, and had to return home disappointed. Every part of the Manhyia grounds was occupied by a mass of mourners, clad in black cloth. Security men arrested a number of pick-pockets at the funeral grounds. More