A lone ranger police lance corporal, has shot and killed two suspected armed robbers, who were said to have opened fire on him at Asankare in the Ashanti region, during the Easter festivity.
The two men, armed with a pump action gun and a pistol were said to have stormed the offices of a licensed cocoa buying company, and took away an amount of about Gh¢580,000, which was to used to pay salaries of workers.
The purchasing clerk of the company had just returned from the bank with the money and was about to pay the salaries of the workers when the robbers stormed the place with a motorbike.
The Konongo Divisional Police Commander, Superintendent Ohene Boadi Bossman said the two armed men ordered the workers to leave, entered the district officer’s office and took the money in a ‘Ghana must go’ bag and used the Bompata road with the intention escaping through Agogo.
The lone police lance corporal from Bompata, according to the divisional commander, commandeered a landcruiser vehicle and chased the robbers.
A tyre of the motorbike of the robbers deflated on their way and so they hopped unto a taxi but the taxi driver sensed danger and on their way, run into a ditch, in his attempt to escape, the robbers were said to have shot and killed him instantly.
They stopped another taxi, ordered the passengers out and this time decided to drive themselves and took the taxi driver hostage at the back seat.
The police managed to close in at this point, gave a warning shot and also shot through the car. The driver lost control and veered off the road and hit a nearby house.
They then exchanged bullets with the police from then on, but the police officer entered someone’s bedroom and shooting from behind the robbers, he was said to have killed them instantly.
