A 65-year-old pensioner named Openyin Ebow Takyi met his untimely death after he was electrocuted at Breman Asikuma in the Asikuma Odoben Brakwa District of the Central Region. The deceased was electrocuted in his store during a heavy downpour Sunday, May 22, 2022 afternoon. An eyewitness narrating how the incident …
Read More »Cable thief electrocuted to death at Aflao
A 32-year-old man has been reported dead at Aflao, in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta region, after he was electrocuted early Wednesday morning. Eric Kofi Quaye, now deceased, was found with severe burns covering almost every part of his body when he allegedly attempted to steal the incomer …
Read More »Suspected cable thief electrocuted while ‘stealing’ cables at Pokuase Interchange
A 40-year-old thief has been electrocuted under the Pokuase Interchange while stealing earth wires at the high-tension pylons. Branteng Kofi Appiah according to police information available to MyNewsGh.com, was found lying down with his whole body burnt even though he was not dead. Police officers who were at the scene …
Read More »A/R: Man, 41, electrocuted when loading cocoa at Hwibaa
A 41 years old man has been electrocuted at Hwibaa near Wioso in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti when he was loading cocoa from a truck The man identified as Asiedu Christian was reportedly killed instantly after coming into contact with a naked electric wire on Sunday …
Read More »A/R: 38-year-old man electrocuted while repairing faulty streetlight at Kona
An electrician has died while fixing a faulty streetlight at Kona in the Ashanti Region. Police in the area said the incident was reported at about 5p.m., Friday. Kwadwo Banahene, 38, had climbed a wooden electric pole located behind the Kona mosque to work, his brother Kwame Owusu had told …
Read More »14-year-old boy allegedly electrocuted at Pakyi
A 14-year-old boy met his untimely death when he allegedly got electrocuted at home at Pakyi in the Ashanti Region. Majid Iddrisu was found by the Police dead in a supine position with extension cables around him. This was after his father, a meat seller, had reported the incident to …
Read More »6-year-old boy electrocuted at Kuntenase
Six-year-old boy has been allegedly electrocuted at Kuntenase, the capital of Bosomtwe District in the Ashanti Region. Gabriel Otu is said to have been electrocuted after coming into contact with a naked wire while searching for snails with his twin brother at the premises of a bungalow that houses some …
Read More »Meet the boy who was tied and electrocuted for allegedly stealing Gh¢20
Mob justice is when a person suspected to be a criminal is beaten by a group of people or crowd with clubs, stones, machetes, or anything they can lay their hands on. In some cases the alleged criminal dies in the process due to excessive beating or they are set …
Read More »Man, 45, electrocuted after lightening strike at Abakrampa
A 45-year-old man Opanyin Kojo a resident of Abakrampa has been electrocuted by striking thunder at Abura Abakrampa in the Abura Asebu Kwamankese District of the Central Region. Speaking to Kasapa News Yaw Boagyan, an eyewitness Rass Lobby said the deceased and his two labourers were producing cement blocks at …
Read More »Two die in car accident, one electrocuted
Three people died in two separate accidents in the Kadjebi District. The first, which happened at Mempeasem, a farming community along Nkwanta-Kadjebi highway involved two people, whose tricycle crashed into KIA Hyundai vehicle at Poase-Cement and the second was a 14-year-old boy of Menuso, who was electrocuted. Mr Damian Abofua, …
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