E/R: Angry residents of Amanase burn vehicle belonging to 5 suspected ritual murderers amid warning shots
- Residents of Amanase in the Eastern Region have clashed with the police
- It follows the arrest of 5 suspected ritual killers in the area
- They burnt the vehicle of the suspects
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News reaching YEN.com.gh indicates that angry residents of Amanase, a suburb of Suhum in the Eastern Region have set ablaze a vehicle belonging to some five suspected ritual murderers.
Source: UGC
The suspects are; Prince Adjololo, 26, Solomon Adjololo, 28, Mintah Benjamin, 23, Felix Haya, 27, and Akwasi Tenkorang, 27.
They were arrested by a mob when they allegedly tried abducting a child in the community for rituals, Myjoyonline reported.
The irate youth took the suspects to the chiefs’ palace for interrogation, howling for their blood while wielding sticks and machetes.
They would have been lynched to death but for the timely intervention of police reinforcement from Kibi and Suhum.
Angry with the protection being given to the suspects by the police, the residents reportedly pelted stones at the police, damaging a police vehicle with registration number GP 2867 in the process.
The police fired warning shots to disperse the angry youth before they could rescue the suspects.
In other news, there has been a ghastly murder at Dida in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
According to a report sighted on Classfmonline, a 25-year-old woman was murdered in the district on Friday, May 7, 2021.
The deceased was identified as one Abena Afriyie popularly called “Mother”. She was reportedly found dead at the outskirts of the Dida community with three of her right fingers, two left fingers, and some of her toes missing.
One of her breasts was also cut, the Unit Committee Chairman for the area, Osei Kwadwo, confirmed.
The police conveyed and deposited the body of the deceased at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Investigations have also commenced into the case.
There have been series of ritual killings in the country involving the youth seeking instant wealth.
The most notable is the grisly murder of a 10-year-old, Ishmael Mensah, in Kasoa earlier this month.
The Ofaakor District Magistrate Court remanded into police custody two teenagers who allegedly killed the 10-year-old.
It is however not clear the reasons behind the murder of the 25-year-old woman in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
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