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A man was in the early hours of Monday found brutally murdered, with his head smashed, at Aboso Housing, a suburb of Aboso in the western Region. The deceased was positioned on a railway line. He was dressed in a sea blue T-shirt and blue jean shorts which were well tacked-in with a belt. He was also wearing deep-blue socks with only one brown shoe on. The man, who was about five feet tall, was believed to have been in his late forties and had bruises on some parts of his body. Parts of his brain were scattered a few meters away from the corpse. When Daily Guide got to the scene at 12.30pm, Joseph Damoah, a railway driver, revealed that at 7.35am when he got to Aboso with one of the train coaches, he saw the corpse on the railway line. The sight made him stop, he said, adding that none of their trains moved at dawn. Most of the residents of Aboso who trooped to the scene said the victim was not a resident. The scoop among residents was that since the victim�s head had been opened, the killers might have taken some vital parts of his brain for their usual �Sakawa ritual�. A group of young men also disclosed that it was dangerous to use the railway path during night because of the thick forest surrounding it. Chief Inspector Paddy of the MTTU from Tarkwa, who was at the scene to examine what had happened, told Daily Guide in an interview that he suspected foul play. According to him, the deceased might have been killed elsewhere and dumped at the scene. He stressed that if a train had crushed him, there was the likelihood that some parts of his body would have been stuck to the railway lines, but in this case, the parts of the dead body were intact. Chief Inspector Paddy thus said the matter would be referred to the CID for further investigation.