A 13-year-old boy has shot and killed himself at Adadekrom near Tepa in the Ashanti region.

Class News' Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Aboagye Frank Jackson, reported Saturday March 12 that the deceased, Kwaku Frank, according to residents, was playing with his father's gun when the gun, loaded with two rounds of ammunition, went off.

The father has been arrested to assist in police investigations and the body deposited at the Tepa Hospital mortuary.