A 29-year-old man, Faisal Muniru, has been stabbed by his friend, Ziad Osman to death with a “jack knife” at Wa in the Upper West Region.
This was after the two had a confrontation.
It is unclear what caused the fight, but information indicates that Ziad Osman threatened to killed Faisal Muniru when they had the confrontation.
On his way to make an official complaint at the police station about his death threat, Faisal Muniru met Ziad Osman on the way where the suspect attacked him and stabbed him on his chest.
It was reported that the knife broke into the chest of the victim and he was rushed to the Upper West Regional Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
However, the suspect, who tried to escape from the Region was busted by the police and currently assisting the police with investigations.
The Public Relations Officer of the Upper West Regional Police Command, Chief Inspector Gideon Ohene Boateng called on the general public to be careful not to take the law into their hands, bemoaning the state of murder cases in the Region.
In other news:Man kills wife, leaves mother-in-law in critical condition with cutlass wounds
A man who has shot his wife to death and inflicted cutlass wounds on his mother-in-law is said to be on the run at Sankore in the Ahafo Region.
According to an eyewitness, the wounded mother-in-law is in critical condition after he inflicted cutlass wounds on her in the early hours of Thursday at an area called Three Brothers.
The eyewitness who narrated the incident on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem gave the deceased’s name as Gifty.
According to her, the deceased left her husband’s house about two months ago following a misunderstanding.
She explained that Gifty had been in her parents’ house with their three children until her demise.
The eyewitness said the angry husband stormed the house with a gun and a machete.
“He had an altercation with the wife and attempted to fire the gun, which led to a struggle over the weapon. A first shot was fired into the air, but the second hit Gifty, leading to her death,” she said.
After killing his wife, he also attacked his mother-in-law, who had their baby at her back. He slashed her forehead and leg.
The suspect is said to have ransacked the house and bolted with his father-in-law.
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