[ 2017-05-22 ]

The robbers killed one person and injured several others during the attack.

Police begin manhunt for Tatale robbers
The Police in Tatale in the Northern Region have
begun a manhunt for four armed robbers who raided
the town on Sunday. The robbers killed one person
and injured several others during the attack.

According to the Police, the assailants, who were
six in number invaded the community on motorbikes
and shot sporadically while robbing shops at gun
point.

The Police who got wind of the incident engaged
the robbers in a shootout that led to two of the
robbers being killed while the remaining four
fled.

The Northern Regional Police commander, ACP Adusei
Sarpong urged the public to assist the police
arrest the four robbers who managed to escape.
“A lot of people were mobilized throughout the
villages and they pursued them [the robbers] until
two of them were gunned down. Before then, they
[the robbers] had also shot down one of the people
who was assisting the police in pursuing them.”


“For the two of them, we are yet to identify
them because nobody has come forward to identify
them but for the good samaritan, we know him. We
need the support and corporation of everybody but
as much as we need that, we need them to be
careful,” he said.

A resident, Prosper Napari told Citi News
yesterday [Sunday]that many residents had taken
cover at the police station due to fears of
another attack. “We heard gunshots and when we
traced the whole issue, we realized that there
were some intrusion of armed robbers that had come
into town.

The people entered through the Togo-Ghana border
town and they stopped at the bus stop where people
usually exchanged the Ghana and CFA currencies…
majority of the people in the town are currently
at the Police station to seek shelter. Information
we’ve received suggests that the armed robbers
had moved to some other outskirts of the Tatale
town,” he added.

Source - citifmonline.com

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