Story: Nana Konadu Agyeman, Adukrom
A 26-year-old driver, Kwasi Mintah, was last Saturday lynched at Adukrom in the Eastern Region.
Mintah, a native of Abiriw, was lynched after he had stabbed and inflicted a deep cut on the chest of Kofi Bekoe, a 27-year-old welder from Adukrom, during a fight between some young men from Abiriw and Adukrom.
The body has been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue in Accra pending autopsy, while Bekoe, who was admitted to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital but has been discharged, is assisting the police in their investigations.
Briefing the Daily Graphic at Adukrom on Thursday, the acting Station Officer of the Adukrom Police Station, Sergeant Juliana Gyebi, and General Lance Corporal S. Appiah said the deceased was at the Adukrom Odwira Festival on December 29, 2006, where he witnessed a beauty contest being organised at the festival.
They said while the contest was going on, fighting broke out between some unidentified youth from Abiriw and Adukrom.
The police officers stated that in the course of the clash, Bekoe intervened to separate the two sides but Mintah, who was wielding a dagger, stabbed him in his chest, causing Bekoe to fall unconscious and was rushed to hospital for treatment.
The deceased, according to the police officers, fled, leaving behind the dagger but he was chased by a mob from Adukrom who lynched him.
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