Police investigate woman's death

The Police today said that they are investigating the death of a woman whose body was found at Adenta, near Madina, last week.

According to a source at the Homicide Unit of the Police Headquarters, the woman, Fafa Avedzedah, a 22-year-old unemployed from Gbadzeme in the Volta Region, came to live in Accra about three years ago. It said on November 16, the deceased left her house at Adenta around 2300 hours without informing her neighbours and failed to return.

The source said around 1330 hours on November 17 some children discovered her body a few meters away from her house and raised the alarm. According to the source, the body of the deceased, which bore no external injuries, was half-naked with two pants and a polythene bag containing porridge lying beside it.

The body was the second in one week discovered in the Madina area. At least 25 women have been found dead in Accra in unexplained circumstances in the last two years. There is a general belief that there is a serial murderer or murderers on the loose.