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A punishment to weed turned tragic when a student of Effiduase Senior
High School, Ebenezer Kusi,accidentally inflicted cutlass wounds on
himself leading to his death.
School authorities explained to LUV FM's Erastus Asare Donkor that a
group of students were assigned to weed the school compound for
various offences.
While engaged in the morning punishment, a squirrel darted off from
the bush attracting the attention of the students under punishment.
They spontaneously gave the quick-footed rodent a chase to kill or
catch. Tragedy was lurking around.
Ebenezer, believing he had closed in on the target, swung his cutlass
but missed the squirrel.
The cutlass however caught him in the thigh, sinking a mortal wound on
the 18-year old second-year student.
The chase came to a screeching halt as his stunned colleagues rushed
to their frightened colleague, blood spluttering on thegrass.
They rushed him to the local Government hospital where their worst
fears were confirmed; Ebenezer was confirmed dead.
There is total grief at the EffiduaseSenior High School in the Ashanti
Region after the incident.
A distraught 50-year old father of the deceased is at a loss as to why
his son was subjected to weeding as punishment.
He believes the student's term billcaters for keeping the school's
grass properly trimmed.
He is also disputing the claim that his son was late for school,
saying the boy left home after 6:30am.
He blamed the son's death on the school authorities.
Credit: Myjoyonline.com
