Boy arrested for killing grandmother

A 15-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly killing his grandmother in Gbonasua, in the Jaman South municipality of Ghana’s Bono region.

“The teenager hit the 70-year-old woman on the head with a club,” accoording to reports.

“The boy single-handedly dragged the life­less body of the grandmother into a backyard farm and buried her in a shallow grave,” reports added.

The deceased’s granddaughter returned from school, but she was nowhere to be found. The suspect told her their grandmother was out of town.

After the long search yielded no results, the search party began to focus more closely on the environs of the deceased’s residence.

The stench from the decom­posed body finally drew the search party to the exact spot where the “burial” took place.

The body has since been exhumed by the police awaiting autopsy.

The suspect is in police custody assisting the investigation.