A family of three has been killed and their bodies charred by unknown suspects at Ningo-Prampram in the Greater Accra region.
The victims are a father, his wife and their infant child, MP for the area Sam George told Starr News Friday.
Mr George said the victims are reported to have been embroiled in a land dispute with another person in area.
“I have spoken to my district commander and it appears to be a homicide. There is a dispute over land and one party appears to have contacted someone to take the other family out,” he said.
Sources say the family was accosted by the assailant while returning from the farm on Tuesday. The killer is believed to have driven the deceased man and his murdered family in their pick up truck back to the farm, and left them there.
Some suspects have been picked up by the police as part of investigations into the matter.
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