Murders of women stoke fear in Ghana's capital

ACCRA, July 3 (Reuters) - A string of 25 unsolved murders of women in Ghana's capital Accra has raised fears that a rapist and serial killer may be on the loose in the city. Police and women's groups said on Monday that the victims have been killed in different parts of the city over the past 18 months, the latest attack being on Sunday.

The women's groups accuse the police and government of inaction and have threatened to call a nationwide protest strike.

"Perhaps if the wife or daughter of an important person was killed then they would act," Angela Dwamen-Aboagye of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) told Reuters.

Police sources said that the latest victim, a woman believed to be in her mid-20s, was found dead in a residential area with her skirt and her underwear torn and bloodied.

The previous victim, a middle-aged woman, was found with no underclothes in another part of the city of two million people.

Police sources acknowledge a lack of progress with the investigation but say that they are working with equipment dating back to the 1920s.