A 42-year man found dead in Tamale

A 42-year-old lotto receiver was on Wednesday morning found dead alongside the Russia bungalows road, a suburb of the Tamale Metropolis.

Assistant Superintendant of Police (ASP) Ebenezer Tetteh, Northern Region Police Public Relations Officer told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Tamale on Wednesday that a police constable saw the deceased lying down alongside the road and became suspicious and called the ambulance service who came and later pronounced him dead.

He said family relatives who came to the scene identified the deceased as a patient at the Tamale Central Hospital but could not tell how he was found dead out of the hospital.

ASP Tetteh said the police would investigate the circumstances leading to his disappearance from the hospital and the death but indicated that the body has been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Attempts by the GNA to speak to the authorities of the Tamale Central Hospital about the circumstance which led to the deceased disappearance proved futile though they confirmed the deceased was a psychotic patient receiving treatment at the facility until his death.

In a related development, a 13-year-old school dropout is in the grips of the Regional Police Command for allegedly stabbing and killing one Sulemana Haruna 20, a primary six pupil of Nyanshiegu Primary School in Tamale.

ASP Tetteh said the two engaged in a fight at a wedding party on August 23 at Kalpohin, a suburb of Tamale.

He explained that the deceased stepped on the feet of the suspect’s girlfriend, while the two were dancing.

He said while the suspect and the girlfriend were leaving the wedding party, the deceased accosted them and stabbed the suspect with a kitchen knife, but the suspect managed to seize the knife and stabbed Haruna.

He said the deceased Sulemana Haruna was being rushed to the Tamale Teaching Hospital but died on arrival. Autopsy was performed on the body and released to the family on Tuesday for burial.

ASP Tetteh said the suspect was being processed for court on a provisional charge of murder.