Bodies of two drowned policemen in Oda River found

Two Policemen’s bodies were found drowned in the Oda River

The two police officers’ bodies who perished on Wednesday night in the Oda River at Kobro near Jacob in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region have been found.

The bodies of the deceased were fastened to a boat and dragged through the waters when a search group from the communities along the river’s banks returned this morning.

When they were recovered, they were still wearing their police uniforms, but their duty firearms for the force were nowhere to be seen.

As authorities launch their inquiries, their decomposing bodies have been placed at the Obuasi Seventh Day Morgue.

Contrary to a previous report, the two policemen who drowned in the Oda River at Kobro near Jacob in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti region had gone to extort illegal miners who had anchored chang fang dredging machines on the river and were mining for gold, according to the townspeople.

Following a distress call from some small-scale miners, the two, Lance Corporal Stephen Kyeremeh and Amedius Akwesi Boateng, were allegedly among a gang of four police officers from the Obuasi District Police Command that stormed the Apamprama Forest Reserve to pursue several armed thieves.