Student dies from cutlass wounds during punishment

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Ghana Education Service, Safo Kantanka has instituted swift investigations into the death of a second year student of the Effiduase Senior High School. 

Master Ebenezer Kusi, 18, died at the Effiduasi Government hospital after allegedly inflicting cutlass wounds on himself. 

Confirming the incident, the Effiduase District Police Crime Officer, ASP Opoku Yamoah said the body of the deceased has been deposited at the Effiduase Government Hospital for autopsy.  

According to sources at the school, Ebenezer and his colleagues were weeding portions of the school as punishment for infringements of school rules and regulations.  

The source said the students spotted a rodent and in the process all of them abandoned the weeding and pursued the animal with their cutlasses. 

Ebenezer, who was in the forefront of those chasing the rodent, lifted his sharp cutlass to kill the animal.  

The source said he fell and they all thought he had killed the animal and started commending him, however, unknown to them, Ebenezer had missed the target and opened a deep wound on his right thigh.  

This was realised when they got close and saw blood oozing out of his thigh and rushed him to the Effiduase Government Hospital but died minutes later.

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