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BY: Samuel Kyei-Boateng
Category: General News
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A rainstorm which hit Akyem Oda in the Birim Central Municipality in the Eastern Region last Monday and destroyed more than 300 dwellings, as well as buildings belonging to 10 educational institutions, has been described as the worst to hit the municipality in recent times.
The rainstorm lasted about two hours, following which over 1,000 people were rendered homeless and property worth millions of cedis destroyed.
Among items destroyed were clothing, television sets, gas cookers, musical instruments, refrigerators, electric fans, furniture, mattresses, books and computers.
Others were school registers and log books, electric poles and cables and metal containers.
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A 19-year-old girl has slashed the throat of her day-old baby in Atenkrom, a village near Akyem Etwereso in the Eastern Region.
The teenager whose name was given as Patience alias Mommie, self-delivered a baby boy last Friday dawn but claimed parts of the baby looked like an animal.
According to a witness, Nana Owusu, Patience took the baby into a nearby bush and slit its throat with a kitchen knife.
She then dumped the corpse in a cocoa farm and returned home.
When asked about the child by her uncle and elders of the village, Patience refused to disclose his location.