Man sets himself ablaze … dies at hospital
A 34-year-old man suspected to be mentally deranged has set himself ablaze, to avoid arrest after inflicting knife wounds on his father, at Santa Maria, a suburb of Accra.
The fire was quenched and Harry Amponsah, was rushed to the Police Hospital for treatment, but unfortunately, he died on Tuesday.
According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, Head of Public Affairs Unit of the Accra Regional Police Command, the Odorkor Police received a complaint from the father of the suspect on the incident on Saturday.
She said the complaint said that his son Harry had attacked him with a cutlass and inflicted wounds on his left arm.
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The Greater Accra Regional Police Command has seized 394 motorbikes in recent operations geared towards improving and sustaining the current security situation in the nation’s capital.
The operations which started on Thursday, July 22, 2021 forms part of the periodic Police operations to clamp down on criminal activities and prevent crime usually committed through the use of motorbikes.
The breakdown of the impounded motorbikes are as follows: Madina division-30 motorbikes, Abokobi Ayi Mensah, 11, Kpeshie, 15, Accra Central, 25, Oyibi / Frafraha 15 and Mamprobi , 34, Dansoman,51, East Legon, 23, Kaneshie, 74, Kotobabi, 21, Adjen Kotoku, 15, Pokuase, 33 and Nima, 47.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mrs Effia Tenge, Head of Public Affairs Unit of the Accra Regional Police Command, said the operation was also to sanitise the system by reclaiming stolen motorbikes and compelling recalcitrant riders to regularise or update their documentation in line with road traffic regula
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