Unidentified body washed ashore in Jomoro District

Emzitianu (W/R), April 5, GNA 97 The body of a man in his

forties has been deposited at the Half Assini Government

Hospital morgue by the police, awaiting identification and

collection. Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) John Ferguson

Dzieneku, the Jomoro District police Commander told the Ghana

News Agency at Half Assini on Monday. He said the police received information last Friday that, a

copse had been washed ashore at Emzitianu near, New Town, a

coastal town that shared border with the Ivory Coast in the

Jomoro District. DSP Dzieneku added that his outfit dispatched a police

investigative team to the town, led by Chief Inspector Paul

Anaman and managed to bring the body to the morgue at Half

Assini, for autopsy to ascertain the cause of death. He said the body is about six feet tall with bushy beard and

suspected to be an Ivorian, since no Ghanaian had reported of a

missing relative to the police. DSP Dzieneku had ruled out any suspicion of foul play for

now, since the body bears no marks, The victim is believed to

have drowned in the Ivorian Coast and had been washed ashore

in the town by the current of the sea.