A 50-year-old man has lost his life after falling from a coconut tree in Saltpond in the Mfantsiman Municipality of the Central Region.
Citi News sources say the incident happened on Thursday morning after 50-year-old Kwabena Tantan, in an attempt to get some coconut, fell from the tree and died.
It is unclear what caused the individual to fall from the tree. A resident who gave his name as John Koomson told Citi News that police have deposited the body of the deceased at the morgue for preservation.
“We were embarking on a clean-up exercise in the Saltpond community when someone called me to inform me that a man, believed to be in his fifties, had died after he attempted to climb a coconut tree to get some coconuts. We quickly moved to the area only to find out that the deceased was in a pool of blood in a gutter near the coconut tree and surrounded by some coconut. We called the police and some family members who came to take the deceased to the morgue,” John Koomson told Citi News.
“The Kwabena Tantan I know had no enemies, so his death remains a mystery to us”.