Two people\u00a0were reportedly killed by armed robbers\u00a0on the main Cape Coast- Assin Fosu road on Monday.<\/p>\n
Speaking to an eyewitness, Citi News<\/strong> Central Regional correspondent Kwamena Bamfo Adjei gathered that a gang made up of six men set up barricades on the Assin Edubiase and Assin Nkwanta road, blocking the vehicles and attacking them.<\/p>\n Passengers in over fifteen commercial vehicles were reportedly robbed of their possessions, including money and phones.<\/p>\n According to the eyewitness, one of \u00a0the deceased was shot because he refused to comply with the robbers demand\u00a0for money.<\/p>\n A driver of an articulated truck, presumably on seeing the shooting, drove through the barricades the robbers had set up.<\/p>\n The second man, who was driving behind the truck in a private car, tried to follow suit, but was shot dead in the process.<\/p>\n The Public Relations Officer of the Ghana Police Service, Mr Raymond Asaba told reporters that investigations into the situation were still ongoing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two people\u00a0were reportedly killed by armed robbers\u00a0on the main Cape Coast- Assin Fosu road on Monday. Speaking to an eyewitness, Citi News Central Regional correspondent Kwamena Bamfo Adjei gathered that a gang made up of six men set up barricades on the Assin Edubiase and Assin Nkwanta road, blocking the vehicles and attacking them. Passengers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":10657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-22275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}