2 killed; one of them 8, at a shrine

Two people have been killed after a loaded gun went off in a crowded area in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

The incident happened Friday at the 30th-anniversary celebration of the installation of a fetish priestess in the regional capital, Koforidua.

The victims are Kojo Kakari, 68, and an 8-year-old girl who was the only child of her parents.

Her grandmother, wailing uncontrollably, told Joy News’ Kofi Siaw the girl’s parents struggled for 22 years before she was conceived.

A third person Lydia Boateng, 55 sustained serious injuries on her hands.

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