Hawkers and residents around the Old Achimota overhead were stunned on Thursday morning at the sight of a lifeless body hanging a thin rope on a slender tree. This incident comes a day after a fifteen-year-old student in the Eastern region committed suicide. Some of the hawkers who saw the body this morning say they suspect foul play. “I have seen someone who has committed suicide before but looking at the rope he used I suspect foul play,”one of the hawkers told Citi News. Meanwhile the Tesano District Police Commander DSP Edward Tetteh says its preliminary investigations show the deceased was at a betting house around the area last night. “We heard information from operation room that around 6.30 there was a body found around Achimota overhead so Police proceeded to the scene and we went to find the body hanging on a rope so through our investigations, we had to drop the body down and convey it to the mortuary. We cannot dispute the fact that it is murder because the way we found the body, we are suspecting but we have sent it to the Police hospital for autopsy to confirm whether it is a murder case or not and we have found his mobile phone and we have found his mobile phone and we found out that he was at Mybet yesternight. The receipt found on him indicated that he was at Mybet last night so we have asked the investigator to proceed to Mybet to find out whether he was indeed there” Other suicide cases This suicide case follows similar ones that occurred at New Tafo in the Eastern Region, the University of Ghana and Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Girl, 16, allegedly commits suicide at New Tafo The one that occurred at New Tafo involved a sixteen-year-old girl whose lifeless body was found by her mother in their kitchen on Tuesday [March 8, 2017] afternoon while the other one that occurred at KNUST involved the daughter of a Member of Parliament. – By: Marian Ansah & Caleb Kudah/citifmonline.com/Ghana Follow @EfeAnsah
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