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Suspicious object washed ashore near
Aflao
Aflao, June 24, Ghanadot/GNA - A
drum-like metal object, the size of about four 50-gallon
drums and about seven feet high was washed ashore at
Abelikope, near Aflao on Monday.
The object is yellow in colour with two metal hooks and a
flat plate resembling a satellite disc at its side.
It has been tied to a boat to prevent it from being washed
back into the sea. It is sealed and its contents are
unknown.
Many people, including security personnel, fear the object
could be an explosive device or might contain a poisonous
chemical.
Mr. Justice Cudjoe, Ketu South District Chief Executive, Mr.
Ahmed Issah Yakubu,
Assistant Superintendent of Police in charge of Aflao
District and personnel of the Bureau of National
Investigations were around to take a look at it.
Mr. Yakubu advised the fisher folk in the area to stay away
from it and that marine and chemical experts would be
invited to examine it.
The GNA was told that a group of young men spotted the
object afloat about two nautical miles in the sea while
playing at the beach and with a boat directed it to the
shore.
GNA
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