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Four siblings, including a two-year-old girl, have been found dead in
an unused deep freezer at Maame Ntiriwaa Junction, a suburb of Bechem
in the Tano South District in the Brong Ahafo Region.
The three boys are Tanko, 12, a Class Two pupil of the Demonstration
School, Bechem; Alafat, nine, a KG Two pupil of the same school, and
Moses, six, a KG Two pupil of the Anglican Basic School, Bechem, and
the girl, Atikka, a pupil of the Crèche Department of the Joy
International School, also in Bechem.
According to eyewitnesses who pleaded anonymity, the children did not
go to school last Tuesday, October 14, 2014, because of financial
problems.
Parents
They said the children's Nigerian mother, whose name was only given as
Auntie Mary, a trader, cooked for the children and left for town to
sell things about 3 p.m.
According to them, Auntie Mary left the children in the care of their
father, Mallam Zakaria, a known spiritualist in the area.
Mallam Zakaria was also said to have left for town, leaving the
children alone in the house about 5 p.m.
When Auntie Mary returned home and could not find her children in the
house, she went to the nearby houses where the children always went to
play with their friends.
Search party
After an unsuccessful search by the mother, some of the residents
joined in the search.
The eyewitnesses said after many attempts to trace the children had
yielded no results, the search party went to the children's home,
where they instinctively opened one unused deep freezer which had been
abandoned in one of the rooms, only to find all the children dead in
it.
They, however, said there were no bloodstains in the deep freezer or
on the bodies of the children.
Police investigate
When contacted, the Brong Ahafo Regional Police PRO, ASP Christopher
Tagoe, confirmed the incident and said "the police are gathering
facts".
He said the bodies of the children had been deposited at the Bechem
Government Hospital pending autopsy to identify the cause of death.
Meanwhile, both Auntie Mary and Mallam Zakaria have been arrested by
the police, while the deep freezer in which the bodies were found has
been deposited at the Bechem Police Station.
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