Zuarungu Police Murder: One Suspect Gunned Down

34-year old Laayaame Simon, a suspect in the “gruesome” murder of two police officers at Zuarungu has been gunned down by the Upper East Regional Police Command.

The two police officers during a patrol duty were shot to death when they bumped into three suspected armed robbers who had robbed a shop owner of an amount of GHC 2000 last Wednesday.

Following this, a special Anti-Robbery Intelligence-led operation was launched to hunt down the suspects.

In a release this morning, the police announced that “a special Anti-Robbery squad, assisted by the Upper East Regional Police Command through an intelligence-led operation at Kpatia in the Talensi District have gunned down suspect Laayaame Simon alias Yendu aged 34 years, one of the three suspected armed robbers who callously murdered two Police officers at Zuarungu in the Upper East Region.”

The police added that a special targeted intelligence-led operation is being carried to get the rest of the suspects arrested.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini