Two young men have been arrested by the Sekondi Divisional Police Station for allegedly possessing a human skull and also attempting to buy human parts.
The two, all unemployed, are Isaac Kweku Agyepong, 20 years, and Shamzu Mohammed.
Narrating the incident to 3news.com, a resident of Asamansudu, Leonard Samuel Lamptey said at about 10:00am Thursday, the two young men holding a sack approached him and asked where they can get human parts to buy.
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“I got alarmed and asked them whether it is car body parts they want or what, and they repeated that they want to buy human parts. I told them I cannot be of any help,†he narrated.
He further stated, “when I left them I became worried that these people can kidnapped any young person around and take the body partsâ€.
According to the eyewitness, he quickly informed some young men around who helped to arrest the two suspects.
“We opened the sack they were holding and saw a human skull wrapped in a white clothâ€.
While we were interrogating them the police came around to pick them up to the station.
Checks at the Sekondi Divisional Police Station indicate the skull was exhumed at a cemetery at Asanda in the Ellembelle district.
Meanwhile, the incident has thrown resident in Sekondi in a state of shock and alertness.
Some of the residents who had gathered at the Sekondi Police Station were worried that Sekondi Takoradi is gradually becoming insecured.
Source: 3news.com