An angry mob at Kegen in the Jomoro District on Wednesday, December 23 almost lynched a driver who knocked down and killed an indigene of the town.
Superintendent John Ferguson Dzineku, the Jomoro District Police Commander, made this known to the Ghana News Agency in an interview at Half-Assini.
He said on December 23, the deceased, Ernest Eduku, 39, was among a number of people from the town partaking in a street jam along the main street of the town.
Superintendent Dzineku said Eduku attempted to cross the road to the other side when he was accidentally knocked down by the driver, Mr Patrick Arthur.
The Police Commander said when Mr Arthur, a driver of a sales van, stopped to take the victim to hospital, some irate citizens from the town rushed on him in an attempt to lynch him.
He said it was due to the timely efforts of the father of the deceased that the driver was saved.
Superintendent Dzineku said Mr Arthur received severe beatings and incurred injuries on the head and this was besides the smashing of the vehicle’s windscreens.
The driver is currently on admission at the Half-Assini Government Hospital, responding to treatment, he said.
Superintendent Dzineku said deceased died on his way to the Eikwe Catholic Hospital and his body has been deposited at Half-Assini Government Hospital morgue for autopsy while police continue their investigations.
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