{"id":646726,"date":"2019-06-28T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p>A 35 year-old man, Collins Yagbil, is in the grips of the Police for allegedly killing his wife and two children at Kolpielga in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police had a tough time arresting the man because "},"modified":"2019-06-28T13:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T13:20:59","slug":"man-kills-wife-children-for-rituals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/28\/man-kills-wife-children-for-rituals\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Kills Wife, Children For Rituals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 35 year-old man, Collins Yagbil, is in the grips of the Police for allegedly killing his wife and two children at Kolpielga in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.<\/p>\n<p>The police had a tough time arresting the man because the family and friends of the deceased wife wanted to lynch him as payment for his alleged crime.<\/p>\n<p>Collins Yagbil is reported to have cut the throat of his two children and sprinkled their blood on a rock as a sacrifice to his gods.<\/p>\n<p>According to eye witnesses, when his wife appeared at the scene and saw their children lying in a pool of blood on the rock, she screamed for help and attacked him and in an attempt to silence her, he killed her too.<\/p>\n<p>It is not clear what really caused him to killed the children.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FROM: Ebo Bruce-Quansah, Bolgatanga<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 35 year-old man, Collins Yagbil, is in the grips of the Police for allegedly killing his wife and two children at Kolpielga in the Nabdam District of the Upper East Region. 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