WOMEN UNDER SIEGE IN ASHANTI, TWO MURDERED IN A WEEK

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A Newscaster of a Bekwai-based private radio station, Portia Agyeiwaa Kodie, has been killed by unknown assailants at her rented apartment at Bekwai in the Ashanti region. 

Confirming the incident to Ashanti Today in a telephone interview, the General Manager of DESS FM, Gordon Donkor, said the he was informed about the news at about 7 pm yesterday, Sunday April 15, hours after Agyeiwaa Kodie had left the office. 

He said circumstantial evidence at the scene of the incident points to the fact that she was stabbed just beneath the ribs on her left side where the heart is located leading her to bleed profusely. 

Mr. Donkor indicated also that Agyeiwaa Kodie is believed to have struggled with her assailants and that her two phones had been taken away. 

The General Manager noted that the deceased was employed by DESS in November last year as both a Newscaster and a Front Desk Officer and that she reported to work yesterday, Sunday April 15 and left at about 4.30 pm.

 She is a native of Asante Mampong.

 Her body has since been deposited at the Bekwai Municipal Hospital morgue pending police investigation.

 Meanwhile, the Bekwai District Police Commander, DSP Edward Obeng Boateng, has confirmed the suspected murder of the Newscaster but told Ashanti Today that the Police have just begun investigation into the matter. 

The latest incident follows a similar suspected murder case at Aduaben in the Bosomtwe district also of Ashanti exactly a week earlier. 

In the Aduaben murder, a self-employed 40 year old lady, Efua Akyere, was attacked at about 1 am on the 7th of this month few hours after she had closed from work. 

She was tied in both the legs and arms and strangled to death and.

 One person has been arrested by the Feyiase Police.


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