Armed Robber Shot Dead While Wounded Accomplice Abscond

An armed robber has died with one other wounded following a gun battle between them and a police anti-robbery squad in the Ashanti region.

The gunfight ensued after the police ambushed two armed robbers who attacked a bank customer who had stepped out of the Fidelity Bank Branch at Makro on Friday, October 21.

“On Friday, October 21, 2022, following intelligence that an armed robbery gang was planning an attack on a cluster of banks in the Suame Magazine and Maakro enclave in Kumasi, the police launched a special anti-robbery operation..”, a statement from the police said.

The robbers, the police reports, snatched a brown envelope from the customer who had stepped out of the bank, prompting the police who “had mounted a surveillance” to shoot at them.

In the ensuing gunfight, both robbers who were on a motorbike got shot, however, the pillion rider fell from the bike, the police recounted.

One of the police officers is also reported to have sustained a gun wound on his hip.

The pillion rider was pronounced dead when he was taken to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, according to a police report.

Meanwhile, the other robber managed to escape with a gunshot wound but the police say a manhunt has been launched for him.

It is not clear if the police were able to retrieve the brown envelope which was snatched from the customer.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini