62yr-old private security guard killed in Wa; police begin investigation

The Upper West Regional Police Command has begun investigations into the killing of a 62-year-old private security guard in Kpaguri a suburb of Wa.

According to the police, a search party was commissioned when the family of the deceased reported him missing on Saturday, and his body was uncovered in an uncompleted building opposite the stores he guards.

The police went to the scene together with Environmental Health Officers too and the body was conveyed to the Regional Hospital

The body was sent to the mortuary for preservation, and it was released to the family after post-mortem for burial”, the Public Relations Officer for the Upper West regional Police command, Inspector Gideon Ohene Boateng, said. 

He further called on residents to help police bring the perpetrators to book.

“Police personnel in the Upper West Region will try to ensure that those perpetrators are arrested

The modus operandi used by these criminals is baffling, so the police will urge the general public to be cautious so we can curb the menace.”