A case of attempted murder was opened after police found a human hand lying in an open space at the Sports and Recreation ground.

The hand had been chopped off from the wrist.

Captain Mbense said that the police were patrolling just after midnight when they found the hand behind the grandstand.

They tried to locate the owner of the hand and eventually took it to Dundee Provincial Hospital where the owner was found.

The young man, from the Mbindolo Area in Pomeroy, alleged he was attacked by a group of unknown men while he was with his friends.

He was tripped by one of the suspects and fell to the ground.

The group of men then assaulted him and chopped off his hand with a bush knife.

He also suffered a laceration to the back of his neck.