Ganta, Nimba County – Police in Ganta, Nimba County, have arrested several family members of a late 54-year-old woman whose lifeless body was prepared for burial but was removed from her coffin.
The incident occurred in front of the Esther and Jereline Hospital in the LPMC Bye-pass Community.
The late Nohn Yeegen died at the Esther and Jereline Hospital and her remains were placed in a casket, which angry family members moved in and vandalized. In the process of damaging the coffin, 38-year-old Samuel Ben, who had been contacted by the deceased husband to cover his late wife’s casket was attacked and wounded on the head.
The aggrieved family members of the deceased headed by 31-year-old Otis Yeegen and Roland Paye, 16, demanded Samuel Ben not cover the casket before the body can be removed from the hospital.
The angry family’s action was based on what they referred to as a poor and cheap casket, which they said their dead relative couldn’t be buried in such casket.
An eyewitness told this newspaper that the aggrieved family wounded Ben who was covering the coffin when he refused to go by what they wanted him to do.
They then destroyed the coffin.
Police confirmed the arrest of several persons including Yeegen, 31, 16-year-old Paye for their action against Ben.
Speaking to this newspaper, the husband of the deceased Nya Gonyea narrated that he was not expecting his in-laws to behave the way they conducted themselves.
He explained that his late wife was the mother of seven children and that she had lived with him for over 37 years.
The remains of the late Nohn Yeegen are yet to be laid to rest.
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