Woman found murdered behind Military Police Office

Kumasi, Dec 14, GNA - An unidentified woman believed to be in her late 20s was nfound dead on a plantain farm behind the Military Police Office near Bantama in Kumasi in the early hours of Monday, December 14. The police suspect foul play and there has not been any arrest.

Police Chief Inspector Mohammed Tanko of the Police Public Affairs Unit, Ashanti Regional Police Headquarters, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that they received information that a woman had been murdered on a farm close to the Military Police office. He said a team of crime scene investigators were dispatched to the place and they found the woman dead in a pool of blood. She had been stripped naked and a pink dress put beside her.

Mr Tanko said the deceased was believed to have been dragged from the roadside to the farm where she was murdered and examination of the body showed knife wounds. The body has been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital mortuary and police are investigating.