A five-year-old kindergarten girl who went missing last Wednesday with a playing mate at the SSNIT Flats at Asuoyeboa in Kumasi has been found dead in a nearby cassava farm in what police suspected to be ritual murder.
The scene was bizarre.
The heart of the deceased whose name police gave only as Arkofa was taken away and the body spotting several cuts on the back and the neck.
The deceased�s stomach was opened with a suspected sharp object and a human hand appeared to have been used to remove the heart.
Surprisingly and perhaps by divine intervention, the friend of the deceased, Mercy Agyenim Boateng, 4, was found at the crime scene alive but with several cutlass wounds.
The little girl who seemed to have spent the night standing close to her murdered friend, was traumatised and was rushed to hospital for attention.
No one could explain how she survived the brutal attack.
The Suntreso District Police Commander, DSP Cosmos Damoah, told the Daily Graphic Friday that his outfit was doing every possible to get to the bottom of the crime.
No one had been arrested yet but the district police boss said his outfit had mounted investigations into the murder with the view to arresting the perpetrator(s).
According to him, the two children went out playing last Wednesday but never returned home.
DSP Damoah said a report was made to his outfit Wednesday night.
This morning, the owner of the cassava farm, one Abdulai Yakubu, went to the farm and saw Mercy standing there with cutlass wounds all over the body.
With the little girl unable to talk, Abdulai held her hand back looking for her parents.
When Abdulai finally found the house of Mercy, relatives and other neighbours followed up to the farm with Abdulai and during a search the remains of Arkofa was found.
Police were informed of the discovery of the body and men were dispatched to the scene to send the body to the morgue at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital awaiting autopsy.
DSP Damoah appealed to the public to volunteer information on the murder that could lead to arrests.
He also advised against the situation where people rush to crime scenes before informing the police saying such practice could disrupt investigations.
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