ISREAL EMERGENCY UNIT TO ASSIT IN MELCOM DISASTER.

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The Embassy of Israel on Wednesday said an Israeli plane equipped with a team of disaster management experts and doctors are on their way to Ghana to assist with efforts to rescue trapped Ghanaians under rubble of collapsed building.
 In a statement issued in Accra, the Embassy said following the disastrous collapse of the Melcom building in Achimota this morning; the Israeli Ambassador offered Israeli's assistance in dealing with the disaster “An offer that was gratefully accepted by Ghana... An Israeli jet plane was quickly scrambled, on board a team of professionals with highly advance equipment, and is planned to land as early as tonight. “The Israeli team will consist of disaster management experts, medical doctors with trauma expertise and rescue specialists. The equipment would include emergency medical equipment, rescue (for example pneumatic scissors) and monitoring equipment. “Israel is always one of the first to react in situations of disaster management around the world,” the statement stated.

Early Wenesday morning an altramodern five-storey building commissioned barely a year ago collapsed whiles over 50 workers were trapped under the rubbles. The tragedy occured at about 9am the time workers were having their morning devotion. it is beleived that although the shop was not officially opened to customrs,some early patrons who made it there at the time were also victims of the disaster,living the total number of people trapped under not specific. Several efforts from various rescue teams in the country including the Ghana Armed Forces, National Disaster for Management Organisation(NADMO), Zoomlion Task Force among other individual corporate institution to help in the rescue operation but still people were trapped under the building. Out of the 48 people who were reportedly rescued from the rubble four have been confirmed dead. Several others still remain under the collapsed six-storey building.

FARMER ALLEGEDLY MURDERS MOTHER-IN-LAW

A 23-year-old farmer Kwabena Omari, has been remanded into police custody by the Nkawkaw District Magistrate’s Court accused of butchering his mother in-law to death at Sitey Kese. Police Chief Inspector Emmanuel Dadey, prosecuting, told the court on Friday that Omari and his mother in-law, Ekua Mansa, a 45- year- old farmer, lived in the same community. He said a quarrel ensued between Omari and his wife and the woman took her three children and went to stay with the mother. The prosecutor said on October 30 at about 2000 hours, Omari went to the in law’s house and took away two of his children. He later returned to take away the third one who is four months two weeks old and the deceased and Omari’s wife prevented him from doing so. That situation resulted in a quarrel between them. The prosecutor said the deceased left her house and set off to report the conduct of Omari to her husband in another house in the community. Omari allegedly pounced on the woman and slashed her with a cutlass and inflicted multiple cuts on her head, neck, jaw and the left arm and she died instantly. He said Omari also inflicted cutlass wounds on a Good Samaritan, Mr Maxwel Osei, also a farmer, who went to the aid of the woman when he heard her screaming. He was taken to the Nkawkaw Holy Family Hospital but later referred to the St Joseph Hospital in Koforidua for further treatment. Inspector Dadey said Omari fled into a forest reserve near the community but a search party brought him out and handed him over to the police.