The knife allegedly used in the crime
A 30-YEAR-old nurse has been arrested for allegedly murdering a 70-year-old woman at Amoamang near Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
Suspect Selina Boateng, according to the Bohyen District Police, stabbed Margareth Oppong, with a kitchen knife, leading to her death on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
A police report, confirming the bloody incident, did not state the circumstances leading to the stabbing incident, but only disclosed that Selina had been apprehended for questioning.
“On October 5, 2025, at 1530 hours, Kwame Nkansah of Afful Nkwanta, Kumasi, accompanied by Charles Ofei, and the former reported to police that his wife, Lucy Nkansah, had informed him that Selina Boateng, a 30-year-old nurse at Amoamang CHIPS Compound, had stabbed and killed her 70-year-old mother, Margareth Oppong, with a kitchen knife.
“Upon receiving the complaint, the police with the complainant, proceeded to the scene at Amoamang.
“On arrival they found the deceased, Margareth Oppong, lying lifeless on the floor with multiple stab wounds on her left breast and cheek in a supine position,” a police report said.
The statement, which has been sighted by the paper, further narrated that a kitchen knife, stained with blood, which was allegedly used by Selina to stab the 70-year-old woman, has been retrieved and kept as evidence by the police.
The police said the suspect has since been arrested and brought to the station to assist in investigations, adding that the body of the deceased has been deposited at the Ebenezer Mortuary for preservation and autopsy.
FROM I.F. Joe Awuah, Kumasi