Police launch investigation into Prempeh College incident

• Posted on October 12, 2015October 12, 2015
• by Nana Kwesi Coomson
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Police have launched investigations into circumstances that led to two students of Prempeh College in Kumasi to fall from the third floor of a dormitory block.

Luv FM’s Erastus Asare Donkor says Ashanti Region Poice Commder, DCOP Kofi Boakye, told him although the incident looks like an accident, police are determined to establish that there is no foul play.

The incident which happened at the Opoku Ware II House on Sunday left one student dead while another is severely injured.

The two were engaged in what eyewitnesses say was a friendly confrontation that went terribly wrong.

Some students who witnessed the incident told Joy News’ Erastus Asare Donkor “one was sitting on the banister and the other came to hug him but in the process the one who was sitting on the barrister slipped and while he was falling, he dragged the one who was hugging him along.

“They both fell onto the tiles and one bled profusely”, one student said.

Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital say Samuel Asare Bediako a final year Business student sustained severe brain injuries and died the same day – Friday October 9, 2015 – at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital.

The other student, Tahiri Kofi Boateng, a final year Science student who is currently on admission sustained multiple fractures on his right arm and some injuries to the head.

He is however responding to treatment, doctors say.

The students say the incident has frightened them and they will no longer sit on the balustrades.

Erastus said authorities of the school have refused to comment on the incident.

-joy