Man ‘falls’ to death from 8th floor
The body of a 23-year-old man was Wednesday found in a pool of blood at the Kwame Nkrumah Flats at Laterbiokorshie near the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
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The deceased, Samuel Nkrumah, is suspected to have fallen from the last floor of the eight-storey apartment, where he was seen with his friends on the previous night.
Police brief
Briefing the Daily Graphic, the Korle Bu District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Peter Yembilla, said Nkrumah lived as a squatter with some friends on the last floor of the building.
“We do not want to suspect any foul play but we will invite some residents and friends to answer some few questions when investigations begin,” he said.
Mr Yembilla indicated that a lot of reasons had been assigned to the death but he could only confirm them or otherwise after the investigations.
The body of the Nkrumah has since been deposited at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy pending investigations.
Reported cases since 2012
In May 2012, a man believed to be in his sixties also died after he jumped from the 9th floor of the Trust Towers in Accra to the ground.
In May 2013, it was reported in sections of the media that a 31-year- old man had died following a fall from the fourth floor of the Dansoman SSNIT Flats, Block 13 in Accra. Aseku Delali, fell from the top, landed on the second floor and died immediately.
Again, in January 2014, a man believed to be in his twenties was reported dead after he jumped from the third floor of a four-storey building at Adum in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.