DAILY GRAPHIC, Monday, September 24, 2012, Pg.28. Boy, 9, found hanging

Story: Mary Ankrah

Daniel Nyartwe

A NINE-YEAR-old boy was found hanging at a house near the NTHC building in Accra last Saturday.

Nyartwe was said to be chatting outside the house with his friend, Maa Akosua Ayensu, when he picked a rope from the house to hang himself in front of a shop nearby.

According to Maa Ayensu, Nyartwe picked the rope he used in hanging himself from their house, H/No. D436/4, tied it to an iron bar at the shop and slipped his head into the rope.

She told the Daily Graphic that when she found his friend in the rope, she quickly rushed to the house to draw attention to what Nyartwe had done but she was ignored.

According to Nyartwe’s mother's, Ms Millicent Baah, she was at the market selling her items when one of her sons came to inform her that Nyartwe had hanged himself.

She wondered what could have prompted her son to hang himself.

“I give him everything and he is not bothered by anything. There was no sign that he could do such a thing. What actually could have prompted the little boy to do what he did?” she asked in tears.

The Public Affairs Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Freeman Tetteh, said it was too early to establish whether the incident was a suicide or not.

The body of Daniel Nyartwe has since been deposited at the Ridge Hospital mortuary for autopsy.