The robbers killed one person and injured several others during the attack.

[contextly_sidebar id=”Btb990uo57Ftr5zdzxURoA1f3qCY2FJ5″]According to the Police, the assailants, who were six in number invaded the community on motorbikes and shot sporadically while robbing shops at gun point.

The Police who got wind of the incident engaged the robbers in a shootout that led to two of the robbers being killed while the remaining four fled.

The Northern Regional Police commander, ACP Adusei Sarpong urged the public to assist the police arrest the four robbers who managed to escape.

“A lot of people were mobilized throughout the villages and they pursued them [the robbers] until two of them were gunned down. Before then, they [the robbers] had also shot down one of the people who was assisting the police in pursuing them.”

“For the two of them, we are yet to identify them because nobody has come forward to identify them but for the good samaritan, we know him. We need the support and corporation of everybody but as much as we need that, we need them to be careful,” he said.

A resident, Prosper Napari told Citi News yesterday [Sunday]that many residents had taken cover at the police station due to fears of another attack.

“We heard gunshots and when we traced the whole issue, we realized that there were some intrusion of armed robbers that had come into town.  The people entered through the Togo-Ghana border town and they stopped at the bus stop where people usually exchanged the Ghana and CFA currencies… majority of the people in the town are currently at the Police station to seek shelter. Information we’ve received suggests that the armed robbers had moved to some other outskirts of the Tatale town,” he added.

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A resident, Prosper Napari told Citi News that the men were on motorbikes and shot into the air, while robbing people on their way.

One person is said to have been wounded and is currently receiving treatment at the Yendi government hospital.

“We heard gunshots and when we traced the whole issue, we realized that there were some intrusion of armed robbers that had come into town.  The people entered through the Togo-Ghana border town and they stopped at the bus stop where people usually exchanged the Ghana and CFA currencies.”

He said the guys numbering about eight on motorbikes fired shots indiscriminately hence scaring the residents.

“As we speak now a majority of the people in the town are currently at the Police station to seek shelter. Information we’ve received suggests that the armed robbers had moved to some other outskirts of the Tatale town,” he added.

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The clash followed a demonstration against the Paramount Chief of the area on Thursday, and threats to kill Kokombas if a District Chief Executive (DCE) was not appointed from the Bassares lineage.

The demonstration was held by agitating youth of the Bassare tribe after suspicions that the President was going to appoint a DCE who was Kokomba.

Subsequently, soldiers and police in the Northern Region were deployed to the area to calm tensions there.

Speaking to Citi News, the Chairman for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Tatale Constituency, James Amadu Bintim, said the issue has been solved amicably.

He added that, both tribes have been asked to submit petitions to the regional office for their preferred DCE to be forwarded to the President for consideration.

“Nobody at present has started appointing District Chief Executives in the region. At the local level, they even have to write an application to the chairman and he will then send it to the regional, and they will take action on it. They will then sit down and have consultations with the executives and send us the fellow they think can occupy that particular portfolio,” Mr. Bintim explained.

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