Girl, 17, commits suicide

A former form two student of Manya Krobo Senior High School, Eunice Lartey, has committed suicide, the police in Somanya have said.

A passerby found Eunice, 17, hanging on a mango tree behind her house at Somanya at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The Somanya District Commander of the Ghana Police Service, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Albert Deletsa, told the Daily Graphic that the police had information that a teenager had been found hanging on a mango tree behind a house on the Yilo Krobo Municipal Chief Executive road and close to the Ghana Health Service offices at Somanya.

The police proceeded to the scene and found the body of Eunice hanging on a mango tree, with a nylon rope tied around her neck.

He said the body was carefully examined, removed and deposited at the Atua Government Hospital morgue awaiting autopsy.

According to DSP Deletsa, no marks of violence were found on the body and no suicide note was found on her or in h