23 Year Old Student Burnt to Death While Performing Ritual

A 23 Year Old Student of the Akenten Appiah Minkah University of Skills Training (AAMUST) has been burnt to death while performing a ritual in school.

Myschoolnews reports the student identified as Prosper Owusu who doubles as the chief priest of his hostel was displaying his spiritual prowess when the raffia skirt he wore for the exercise caught fire.

An eyewitness who recounted the event said:

"While he was displaying and the fire caught his smoke he refused to put it off claiming the fire had activated his fetish power. He was later overpowered after he failed to remove the fire he quickly ran into a pool of water but it was too late for him.

“We noticed he had sustained serious burns so we rushed him to Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Unfortunately, he died a week after his admission,” starrfm.com.gh quotes the witness as having said.

The body of the deceased is said to have been deposited in the morgue as at the time of this report.