KASOA VICTIM DOING WELL (p.20) 18-08-08

Story: Kofi Yeboah

ONE of the two persons who were admitted to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in critical condition following the machete wounds they sustained in the Kasoa murder incident last Friday, is reported to have started speaking.
Family sources told the Daily Graphic yesterday that Masaudu Mohammed, 20, who sustained wounds on the head and other parts of the body, had been speaking to them about the incident.
However, they said, Sherifatu Mohammed, seven, the other victim on admission, was still in a critical condition and had not been able to speak.
Medical officials at the hospital told the Daily Graphic last Friday that Sherifatu would be referred to a neuro surgeon, while Masaudu would be referred to a plastic surgeon, for further treatment.
The two were sent to the hospital last Friday after they were allegedly wounded with a machete by a member of their household, Ibrahim Issah, the motive for which is not yet clear.
Four other persons, Zaliatu Mohammed, 28, and her two sons, Baki Mohammed, nine and Abdul Mubarak, two, as well as Latifa, seven, a niece of Zaliatu’s husband, were all butchered in the horrific incident that occurred at Kasoa New Town in the early hours of last Friday.
The suspect, Issah, 28, was alleged to have set the house ablaze afterwards, burning Zaliatu and one of her children in the process.
Issah is currently on admission at the Police Hospital after allegedly attempting to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach.
When contacted for an update on the case, the District Police Commander of Kasoa, Superintendent Isaac Kwesi Buabeng, said the police were still investigating the incident.