“Madman” slashes girl to death in school

Ho, May 23, -The Police in Kpando have arrested a 27-year-old mentally deranged man for slashing a 13-year-old class five pupil to death at her school.

A Police source told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that Rejoice Dornudenu, the deceased, a pupil of Kpando-Abanu M/A Primary School was playing with her friends on the school compound after school, when Wisdom Ankude emerged with a cutlass and attacked her.

The source said the victim, who sustained deep cuts on her neck, arms and chest was rushed to the Margaret Marquart Catholic Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.

An eyewitness said the “Madman” attacked another woman who raised an alarm and tried to rescue the deceased.

He said pupils who escaped the attack hid on top of trees watching their mate being slashed, fell sick and vomited all night.

The witness said Kpando township was terrified by the incident with some parents expressing fear of sending their children to school.

An opinion leader in the Town said the “Madman” claimed the pupils were calling him “madman” so he decided to teach them how madmen behaved and went to hide in the bush after killing the girl.

He said elders of the town and some youth later arrested him and handed him over to the police.

The GNA gathered that the “Madman” sleeps on the corridors of the school and cooks around the compound and that, weeks ago, he was allegedly arrested for attacking a woman on the farm but was overpowered by witnesses.

One witness said the the Police has on various times arrested the suspect for attempting to attack people with cutlass but often released for claims that his victims called him “madman”.

GNA