Three unclaimed corpses buried in Dormaa Ahenkro

April 16, 2011
Dormaa-Ahenkro (B/A), April, 16, GNA - The Dormaa Municipal office of Environmental Health and the Police have facilitated the burial of three unclaimed corpses.

The bodies had been kept at the mortuary of Dormaa Presbyterian hospital for more than one year with no relatives making an effort to claim them.

The municipal environmental health officer Madam Constance Yeboah told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) at Dormaa-Ahenkro that the interment became necessary as no relation had shown any interest in the dead bodies.

She said persistent radio announcements and police investigations to locate relatives of the corpses ended in futility and the dead bodies posed nuisance to the immediate environment and the hospital.

Madam Yeboah said information available to her office and the police indicated that one of the three men was suspected to have died in an armed robbery shooting incident, another found dead in the early hours of a day near his farm whilst the third, a truck pusher, was also found dead and sent to the mortuary.

She said ever since the arrival of the corpses at the mortuary, no friend or relatives had shown up to either identify or brief the mortuary attendants on circumstances surrounding their death.

In a related development, the skeletal remains of another person believed to be those of a young man have also been interred in Dormaa-Ahenkro by the Environmental Health Officers and the police.

Madam Yeboah told the GNA that the police had a tip-off that a decomposing body was found among some teak trees along the Dormaa-Ahenkro-Berekum trunk road.

She said when the police and environmental officers got to the spot, they found the skeletal remains of a young adult part of which still remained in a tattered pair of trousers.

The municipal environmental health officer appealed to families to endeavour to trace their relatives they could not located or heard from over a period of time to avoid the incidence of mysterious deaths.

GNA