Revealed: Ex-Ghana Premier League striker Frank Twum died of septic shock

GHANASoccernet.com understands that former Ghana Premier League striker Frank Twum died of septic shock in Bangladesh.

The country's leading football website broke the news on Friday of the passing of the former Tema Youth, Berekum Chelsea and Hearts of Oak player.

Twum, who was in jail for the past four months following his arrest of a drug case, died in police custody at the Chattogram Medical College Hospital on Friday, 1 May, 2020.

Senior Jail Superintendent Md Kamal Hossain said the former Abahani player, was hospitalized on Wednesday, 29 April 2020 after he fell sick with fever and cough.

He died two days later while on admission from septic shock, Hossain said quoting the doctors.

In January this year, GHANASoccernet reported that Chattogram City's Bakalia Thana police arrested Twum and another Ghanaian footballer Richard Dzifa Appiah for possessing 7,500 pieces of illicit drug Yaba tablets following a tip off.