Police in Agona Nkwanta of the Western region have arrested a JHS 2 student for stabbing a teenager to death on Friday.
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According to reports, the victim Richard Baako [19 years] was stabbed to death by the JHS 2 student (name withheld) during a scuffle at Kwamikrom, near Aboadi, in the Ahanta West municipality of the Western Region.
Per the reports, the incident followed a heated exchanges over a loaf of bread after the suspect and his group had returned from a snail hunting expedition.
The body of the deceased has been deposited at Dr Mensah’s Mortuary at New Amanful, near Apowa, whilst the suspect has been detained at the Agona Nkwanta Police Station for questioning.
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The Assemblyman for Aboadi Fasis, Osagyefo Stephen Rowell, explained that last Friday night, the suspect together with four other boys from Nkwantaesia, went on a snail hunting expedition.
He added that, on reaching Kwamikrom at about 11 pm, the boys became hungry and decided to buy GH?4.00 worth of bread and began cutting it with a knife they used for the hunting.
Mr. Rowell said, the deceased appeared at the scene and complained that the boys were using a rusted knife in cutting the bread, but they (hunters) replied the knife belonged to them.
“This resulted in a scuffle and both fell on the ground. In the process, the knife of the suspect allegedly stabbed the deceased (Baako) in the chest, and he died on the spot,” he added.
Source:Ghanaiantimes
