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29.05.2012 Crime & Punishment

Soldier, one other killed by robbers

By Ghana |the Ghanaian Times
Soldier, one other killed by robbers
29.05.2012 LISTEN

Two people, Warrant Officer Class One Frederick Amoako, and a civilian identified as Owusu Ansah, were on Sunday evening shot dead by suspected highway robbers at Nsuobeto near Adawso.

The robbers were said to have blocked the road with logs and attacked passengers.

Owusu Ansah, 37, was driving a BMW cross country vehicle with registration number GC 688611 when the robbers accosted him.

He was said to have challenged them and was shot in the right eye.

Warrant Officer Amoako, 40, was on board a Toyota bus with registration number GN 2843 Z. He sat in the front seat and was also shot in the eye.

Seth Kofi Deno, a suspect, has been arrested in connection with the robbery and a search on him revealed five mobile phones and a lady's gold wrist watch.

The Eastern Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police Kwabena Gyamera-Yeboah, told the Times Monday that the robbers stopped three vehicles at about 8:00p.m. and shot the two victims without any provocation.

He said the soldier was shot immediately the robbers spotted him in uniform.

According to him, the driver of the bus sped off and sent the soldier to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong but was pronounced dead on arrival.

DCOP Gyamerah-Yeboah said Owusu Ansah was rushed to the Koforidua Regional Hospital, by police personnel who arrived on the scene but was also pronounced dead, on arrival.

Some of the victims were asked to strip naked and sit on the ground, while the robbers had carried out their operation.

When police personnel from Koforidua and the Akropong arrived at the scene, the robbers escaped into the nearby bush.

The police combed the area, and succeeded in arresting Deno.

WOI Amoako was a soldier at the First Battalion of Infantry, Michel Camp.

DCOP Gyamerah-Yeboah said Deno has been detained at the Police Headquarters to assist with investigations.

Meanwhile, Frederick's body has been deposited at the morgue of the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital while Owusu's has been deposited at the Koforidua Central Hospital.


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