At Ajumako-Badukrom in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of the Central Region, a 40-year-old mentally ill man chopped off the left arm of a 58-year-old woman named Adwoa Mansa and wounded six others.
Asher Osman, 75, whose daughter’s left hand was cut off, was one of the victims who were unprovokedly assaulted in the early hours of Sunday, February 28.
Three other adolescent males on their way to the farm were also wounded, but they were treated and discharged.
Madam Mansa and her mother, who was also a survivor, are currently undergoing care at the Our Lady of Grace Hospital in Breman Asikuma, which is also in the area.
The perpetrator was apprehended to help criminal inquiries, but the victim’s chopped hand was buried.
The Asikuma-Odoben-Brakwa District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Emmanuel Odonko Baah, confirmed the incident to the Ghana News Agency.
According to him, the perpetrator saw the victims and struck them without warning with a sharp cutlass.
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“He indiscriminately assaulted people with cutlasses for no reason,” the District Commander said.
However, an eyewitness identified as Sister Baby, a relative of Mansa, confirmed that the incident occurred around 0600 hours on Sunday, February 28, while Mansa and her daughter were at home.
Someone in the neighborhood allegedly called Mansa with a loud voice, urging her to go into her room, but the perpetrator appeared out of nowhere and chopped off the victim’s left hand.
The woman screamed for help, blood oozing profusely from her wound, as she fought with the attacker to keep him from cutting her any more, according to the witness.
The 75-year-old frail mother raced to the scene after hearing Mansa’s cries for aid, only to be stabbed in the back with a cutlass in an effort by the perpetrator to hack her to bits, according to the witness.
She reported that some residents rushed to the scene, rescued the two, and rushed them to the hospital for treatment.
The incident was later reported to the police station in Enyan-Nkwantanum.
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
