Ghanaian police probe ‘suspicious’ death of Senegalese footballer

Ghanaian constabulary person opened an probe into the “suspicious” decease of Cheikh Toure, a 20-year-old Senegalese footballer, whose assemblage was taken to a infirmary past week.

The announcement connected Monday of a ceremonial probe came aft Senegal’s authorities said connected Saturday that Toure was the unfortunate of a scam and extortion orchestrated by a web of fake recruiters, earlier being murdered by his captors.

Toure arrived successful infirmary successful the metropolis of Kumasi connected Thursday with abdominal injuries caused successful circumstances that stay unclear.

A antheral who identified himself arsenic Issah and claimed to beryllium the victim’s member “brought the deceased to the infirmary successful a captious condition, with respective abdominal injuries, alleging that the unfortunate had been progressive successful an accident,” the constabulary connection said.

“However, infirmary records bespeak that the unfortunate was already dormant connected arrival,” constabulary added.

Toure, a nonmigratory of the Esprit Foot academy successful the municipality of Yeumbeul, adjacent Dakar, came to Ghana hoping to instrumentality trials successful Morocco, the Ministry of Youth and Sports has said, earlier being kidnapped and killed.

Senegal’s sports ministry has called connected “clubs, academies, coaches, and parents to workout utmost caution erstwhile faced with unverified offers of trials oregon transfers abroad”.

Ghanaian constabulary said that they were conducting a thorough probe into the nonstop circumstances surrounding the young footballer’s death.

Senegal’s overseas ministry meantime has sent 2 representatives from its embassy successful Ghana to assistance the authorities and the victim’s household to repatriate his body.

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