Anxiety, fear and panic have engulfed one of the three towns, Adafienu in the Ketu South Municipality as the town has recorded two separate suicide cases within two weeks.
On the 29th day of June, 2021 at about 8:30am, a death was reported of Fortune Atayi a 17 years old lady by hanging herself in her bedroom.
Deceased was a 3rd year student of Adafienu Roman Catholic Junior High School living with her mother in the same house, but in a separate room. Upon tiff off, Denu Police visited the scene at Adafienu and saw the body of Atayi hanging in a fibre rope tied against the roofing.
The Denu District Police Commander, Assistant superintendent Joseph Nakoja who confirmed the incident to gbcghanaonline.com said, “besides the body was an office chair raised against a wardrobe believed to be the stand on which the deceased climbed and left herself down”.
According to him, photographs and measurements were taken after which the body was lowered for examination. “It was observed that the cervical vertebrae was broken with a protruding tongue and no suicide note was left behind”, he added.
The Police says, the traumatised mother, Enyonam Adjei could not give any information that might have necessitated the deceased to take off her life but “investigations will be extended to her school and close friends for possible clues”.
Meanwhile, the body has been deposited at The Municipal Hospital morgue pending autopsy.
Another case of unnatural death occurred on 17 of June, 2021 at Sadekorpe, a suburb of Adafienu involving 37 years old man by name Jonas Amedonu and his body has since be buried.
According to the Police his body was found hanging in a bush on a branch of a mango tree at Sedekope. The police told our reporter that the body of the deceased was in an “ advanced state of decomposing”.
A Pathologist at the Ketu South Municipal Hospital, Dr. Gavoa Kukuia on police instruction conducted an examination on the body of the deceased and promised to furnish the Police with the cause of death at a later date. “Photographs of the body were taken for evidential purpose and the body released to family for burial”, Assistant superintendent Joseph Nakoja submitted.
Assistant superintendent Joseph Nakoja however, charged families, parents and guardians to always pay close attention to their relations whenever they began behaving strangely from their normal self “as it’s usually difficult to unravel the circumstances after death”.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah
