{"id":408422,"date":"2018-03-09T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T15:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=408422"},"modified":"2018-03-10T07:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T07:36:09","slug":"2-arrested-in-kumasi-for-beheading-5-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/2-arrested-in-kumasi-for-beheading-5-year-old-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"2 arrested in Kumasi for beheading 5-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"
Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested two persons for allegedly beheading a five-year-old boy.<\/p>\n
The two; Vikuriba Joe Zoot, 21, and Kozel Borama, 25, were arrested on March 7, 2018 with the human head in their possession at Ampabame near Sokoban in Kumasi.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”vYYX0S3qtxY9chzWt7EjEo9MWp8Ahhvc”]The deceased, identified as Silas Kunsana, a twin, was picked up by the suspects at Suame, a suburb of Kumasi.<\/p>\n
According to police, the suspects lured the deceased with Yoghurt and took him to the uncompleted building in a Taxi cab to commit the act.<\/p>\n
The suspects\u00a0approached a spiritualist, Sheik Alhaji Mohammed Maheey at Suame to buy the human head.<\/p>\n
The spiritualist accepted to buy the head for GHc 2,500 and secretly alerted the police.<\/p>\n
The Police proceeded to the residence of the spiritualist at Suame Zongo and arrested the suspects with the fresh head, which was concealed in a black polythene bag.<\/p>\n
The suspects later led police to retrieve the decapitated body at an uncompleted building on the outskirts of Sokoban.<\/p>\n
Police said they also noticed that both hands of the deceased had been cut off.<\/p>\n
Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Ken Yeboah, who addressed journalists in Kumasi on the matter said the headless body has been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) morgue.<\/p>\n
He said police have also located the deceased\u2019s parents to assist in investigations. COP Yeboah indicated that Police have invited the spiritualist for questioning.<\/p>\n
He said the suspects have been charged with murder and will be arraigned soon.<\/p>\n