A young woman believed to be in her early twenties, is in the grips of the Sunyani District Police Command for allegedly dumping her twin boys in a well on Tuesday.
The sad event is reported to have occurred at Betifi Zongo within the Sunyani Municipality of the Bono Region, according to information gathered from the Police.
A close person to the bereaved family told Angel News that kids within the vicinity reported the sight of the incident to her while she was working at about 1400 hours.
Madam Cecilia Dumpaka said she hastened to the well in a quest to recuse the babies, but to her disappointment, they had succumbed to the well water.
Reporting the case to the Police, officers proceeded to the scene and found the boys floating on the water in the well.
“They were retrieved and carefully inspected. No marks of violence were seen, but some whitish foam substance was flowing from their noses” the police stated.
Their bodies were then conveyed to the regional hospital emergency ward where they were pronounced dead on arrival by the medical officer on duty, Dr Kofi Amoako Adjei.
The bodies were subsequently deposited at the same hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy, the police added.
The twins were three months old.
Angel News’ sources within the vicinity said the suspect drowned the babies because she was overwhelmed by her role as a mother.
According to them, she has been hustling hence the babies impeded her daily activities.
That said, the suspect has been living with her sister who took care of her and the babies till the day of the incident when she could not find the whereabouts of the twins.
She told Angel News’ reporter, Kwasi Oliver, that when she asked about the babies’ whereabouts the suspect answered that they had gone missing, only to later find out when the news broke that they had been drowned in the well.
Meanwhile, the police have launched investigations into the case.
