On Saturday, residents in Kpong, Eastern Region, made a grim discovery: they found the lifeless body of a man hanging from a tree near the Volta Lake in their neighbourhood.

The deceased individual was recognized by locals who had seen him wandering in the area the previous night and a few hours before his lifeless body was found.

Gershon Amaglo, the Assemblyman for the Kpong Zongo Electoral Area, promptly alerted the Kpong Police about the situation.

He clarified that the deceased was not a familiar face in the immediate community where he tragically took his own life.

In a bag discovered with the deceased, who was estimated to be in his fifties, were a mobile phone and a brown envelope containing a white envelope bearing the stamp "666."

Additionally, a small red purse containing a ring was found within the white envelope.

According to police sources cited by GhanaWeb, the deceased, based on his appearance, appeared to be a traveller and a stranger to the community, as nobody could identify him.

“…we were not able to identify the body and it’s like the person was travelling from one place to another and he came to Kpong and I don’t know what actually happened because we saw his luggage, his bags and other things. All the people around us say they don’t know him,” said the police source.

The deceased, though spotted Friday evening and Saturday dawn by some residents of the area, is yet to be identified by any member of the community.

The police source intimated: “According to them, he was in town the previous night, moving from one place to another... but nobody told us he knew him... Even this dawn, people said they saw him.”

Examinations conducted on the body at the scene uncovered some cuts and bruises on the deceased's forehead. Nevertheless, the police have cautioned that it is premature to speculate about foul play in this presumed case of suicide.

“If you check his forehead, there was a small mark there, and then he was bleeding from the nose as if he fell on the forehead. We cannot actually tell [if there was foul play] but we’re doing some investigations,” he disclosed.

Meanwhile, the body has been moved to the Atua government hospital for preservation and post-mortem examination.