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Assin Bereku, the capital of the Assin North District in the Central Region was thrown into a state of shock and disbelieve when a 12-year-old class six boy committed suicide. A Police source in Assin Fosu confirmed the tragedy to the Ghana News Agency saying the deceased Kwame Adu, was found hanging in his room with his sponge tied to the ceiling fan around 1600 hours on Sunday, moments after he had returned from church. According to his family, Kwame Adu was said to have led the Sunday school church service at the Christ Apostolic Church in a happy mood and returned home cheerfully. The police had deposited the body at Assin Fosu St. Francis Xavier hospital awaiting autopsy and further investigations. Mr Sarpong, a relative of the deceased who corroborated the sad news, said Kwame Adu hanged himself in a room, where he had been living with his parents and two siblings, a boy and a girl. He said shortly after church, his Mother, Esi C. K as she was affectionately kn...

A Liberian woman is behind bars after she allegedly burned the hands of her friend’s little daughter with hot oil as punishment. According to reports the incident happened in New Pleebo, Maryland County, Liberia. The woman put the girl’s hands inside hot oil as punishment for eating her rice and then locked her inside a storeroom since January 2. She was rescued yesterday, February 1st, after concerned neighbours alerted the police. Read report below: “Folks, have your say on this little girl. According to information from a correspondent of ELBC (George Mombo) this morning reported that a woman residing in New Pleebo, (Zone 11)of Pleebo, Maryland County burned this little girl’s hands and feet. It was alleged that the little girl eat her cold rice (warm rice) this is why she put her hands in the hot oil. The woman in question isn’t the mother of this child rather her friend’s child. Though according to the same reports, she’s now at the police station under the police custody. The...