Ghana: Bloody Attack At Sea - 20 Fishermen Slashed With Machetes

A vigilante group believed to be members of Fisheries' Watch Committee from Prampram has wreaked multiple knife wounds on twenty fishermen on the high seas at Ada for allegedly engaging in light fishing.The 'hooligans' had reportedly been monitoring their victims who were engaging in the unlawful fishing practice. As a result, when the fishermen went fishing over the last weekend, the vigilante group chased and overpowered them in their different canoes and inflicted multiple cutlass wounds on them.After rendering their victims feeble and reeling in pain, the vigilante group conveyed them (victims) ashore, where they left them to their fate.

The victims came from Tema, Ningo, Wekumagbe, Akplabanya Goi, Lolonya and Anyamam. Joseph Amartey Alimo, leader of the injured fishermen, maintained that their attackers came from Prampram, and that they could identify them.

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