A hunter has shot a fellow hunter he mistook for an antelope at Wassa Essamang in the Wassa district of the Western Region when the two went on a hunting expedition.
The assemblyman for Essamang electoral area Hon. Amos Adjei recounted that the two hunters, Emmanuel Teye 49 years and Kwabena Manu 53 years went hunting in the Essamang forest but they were not hunting together so none of them had any idea of the presence of each other in that area of the forest.
According to the assemblyman, in the course of the hunting, Emmanuel Teye spotted that some leaves were wiggling.
He observed that persistently so he presumed that, it might be a deer so he positioned himself in a very advantageous direction and shot precisely to the location of the shaking leaves. Unfortunately, it was Kwabena Manu who was also a fellow hunter.
The body has been picked by the Wassa East district police command for preservation and investigation.
Hon. Amos Adjei disclosed that series of sensitization programs have been organized for the hunters in the area after the first incident but it is unfortunate that a similar tragic occurrence has happened just within a space of three weeks.
