C/R: Palm wine tapper killed by falling palm tree

A Palm wine tapper has met his untimely death after a falling palm tree trapped him in the bush at Assin Acheano, a farming community in the Central Region.

According to relations of the deceased, he had earlier revealed he was going to the farm to fell some palm trees in order to enable him tap palm wine to distill ‘akpetishie’, a local alcoholic beverage but delayed more than the usual time he returns home.