GOOD SAMARITAN STABBED TO DEATH (MIRROR, LEAD STORY, AUGUST 14, 2010)

From Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Sekondi

ONE of two brothers, who attempted to stop a group of young men from engaging in a violent fight, was killed instantly when a knife was driven through his body. The other, who was also stabbed, is now on admission at the hospital.
The two victims, Kweku Yeboah and Sampson Manu were said to have seen some friends in their community in Adobewura No 2 near Sefwi Bekwai in the Western Region in a violent fight and decided to separate them. The brothers, in the process of stopping the fight, were mistakenly stabbed by Cudjoe Akibe, who was said to be involved in the fight.
Cudjoe told the police in a statement that he stabbed them in self defence and that he collected the knife from one of many young men, who pounced on him when he walked past them without any provocation.
According to the police, at about 8 p.m. on Sunday, August 8, 2010 there was a misunderstanding between Cudjoe and a group of young men in their community.
The two brothers, therefore, decided to separate the fighters and in the process, Cudjoe stabbed Yeboah in the lower abdomen and Manu on the chest.
The police said the brothers went down in a pool of blood and pain, and members of the community quickly rushed them to the Sefwi Wiawso Government Hospital, where Manu was pronounced dead on arrival.
Doctors were said to have managed to save the life of Yeboah and was said to be responding to treatment at the hospital.
Cudjoe told the police that, he was passing through an area when a group of young men started making fun of him and warned them to stop and before he could finish talking the young men pounced on him.
In self defence, he collected a knife from one of them who threatened to stab him and explained that he did not know that the two had come to his rescue.
Meanwhile, the body of the victim has been deposited at the Sefwi Wiawso Government Hospital while the police have launched an investigation into the circumstances that led to the fight and the stabbing of the two brothers.