One of the inmates of the the Kumasi Central Prisons was shot dead by a Police officer in last night’s attempted prison break, an official at the facility has confirmed to citifmonline.com.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Kumasi Central Prisons, ASP Annan, “one of the prisoners on remand in the heat of the confusion tried to snatch a weapon from a policeman. Another officer looking on shot the prisoner and he died in the process.”
[contextly_sidebar id=”2IzMYMCSd9ewr86C5NNXjkpU8IfSR1X8″]”The number of inmates who died are not two, it is just one,” ASP Annan stressed.
He noted that “those the number of Police officers who got injured were more than four but the serious ones are about four and they are being treated at the hospital.”
He said; “The situation is calm. We got help from headquarters to join our force to bring the situation under control.”
The inmates clashed with the Police, in an evacuation exercise during the fire outbreak in parts of the prison on Wednesday night.
Some of them hurled bricks and other dangerous objects at the security operatives, injuring some of the officers.
Some inmates at the prisons reportedly tried to take advantage of the fire incident to break jail but they failed.
Inmates to be transferred
The Ghana Prisons Service has revealed that inmates at the Kumasi Central Prison who attempted to break jail on Wednesday night will be transferred to other facilities.
“We are going to look for those who started the whole thing and have them transferred to ensure that they don’t influence people further,” the Public Relations Officer of the Service , Vitalis Aryeh told Citi Breakfast Show host, Bernard Avle.
“We will take them to a larger or bigger prison where they will not have the influence they have been having all this while,” Aryeh added.
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By: Marian Efe Ansah/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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