The Eastern Regional Security Council (REGSEC), headed by the regional minister, is set to hold a crunch meeting over a galamsey crossfire that occurred in Asamama on Thursday November 17.
This was revealed by ACP Nuhu Django, Deputy Eastern Regional Police Commander when he was speaking in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Friday November 18.
“We are trying to identify the relatives of the dead. This will not plunge the community into chaos. The regional minister will meet us today on the matter,” he said.
Police in the Eastern Region killed three illegal small-scale miners and injured 10 more in the town following a gun battle between them and the galamseyers on Thursday.
More than 20 of the galamseyers were subsequently arrested by the police after the crossfire, which started as law officers who were part of the anti-galamsey taskforce, got intelligence about illegal mining activities taking place at Asamama.
Police were tipped off by residents after huge earthmoving vehicles and excavators surged into the area.
The heavy machines destroyed swathes of cocoa farms and traversed rivers en route to their destination.
As the taskforce swooped in on the illegal miners, they were met with brute gunfire by the galamseyers.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
