Three persons, according to the Northern regional police command, lost their lives after gun-wielding armed robbers attacked traders at a busy market at Tatale at the weekend.
Northern Regional Police Commander Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Patrick Adusei Sarpong told ClassFMonline.com that there were seven armed robbers on motorbikes and the police managed to gun down two of them while an individual was shot and killed by the robbers in the shootout.
“There was a robbery in the town and two of the robbers were killed by police. One of the people in the town was shot by the robbers and he later died,” he said on Monday, May 22
He explained: “Yesterday (Sunday, May 21) we pursued them into the bush and information we are picking today is that they are moving ahead so we are still chasing them.”
ACP Adusei Sarpong indicated that there was calm in the town on Monday morning as residents went about their normal activities.
However, Obore Gariba Yankosor II, the Paramount Chief of Tatale, insists six people are dead.
He said: “They [the robbers] killed three Konkombas and my people also killed three of them.”
Tatale is in the Tatale Sanguli district of the Northern Region, less than 3km from Ghana’s border with Togo where robbery attacks on traders in Ghana and Togo are common.
Meanwhile, a resident, Eric Nartey, explains that there is calm but “a lot of women did not open their shops for fear of their lives even though it is a market day”.
Source:Ghana/AccraFM.com
