A 19-year-old boy, Richard Baako, has allegedly been stabbed to death by another teenager during a scuffle at Kwamikrom, near Aboadi, in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region.

The incident is reported to have ensued last Friday night after heated exchanges over a loaf of bread between the suspect (teenager and JHS 2 student name withheld) and the deceased after the former had returned from a snail hunting expedition with his group.

The body of the deceased has been deposited at Dr Mensah’s Mortuary at New Amanful, near Apowa, whilst the suspect has been detained at the Agona Nkwanta Police Station for questioning.

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According to the Ghanaian Times, the Assemblyman for Aboadi Fasis, Osagyefo Stephen Rowell, narrated that, last Friday night, the suspect together with four other boys from Nkwantaesia, went on a snail hunting expedition.

The assembly man said on reaching Kwamikrom at about 11 pm, the boys became hungry and decided to buy ¢4.00 worth of bread and began cutting it with a knife they used for the hunting.

He added that, suddenly, the deceased appeared at the scene and complained that the boys were using a rusted knife in cutting the bread, but they (hunters) replied the knife belonged to them. This led to a scuffle resulting in his demise.

“This resulted in a scuffle and both fell on the ground. In the process, the knife of the suspect allegedly stabbed the deceased (Baako) in the chest, and he died on the spot,” he added.

All effort to get the police proved futile.