Four persons were killed instantly when a truck ran over them on Sunday morning at Gushegu in the Northern Region.<\/p>\n
The victims before their death, had been attacked by some suspected armed robbers, who ordered them to lie on the streets as they robbed them and other passengers of their belongings.<\/p>\n
Confirming the incident to Citi News<\/strong>, the Public Relations Officer of the Northern Regional Police Command, Ebenezer Tetteh, said the driver of the truck ran into the victims after they ignored the orders of the four robbers to stop.<\/p>\n \u201cAt about 9.30 this morning, a Tamale-Gushegu bound bus was attacked.\u00a0On reaching a\u00a0town called Shegu, four hooded armed men stopped the car,\u00a0the passengers came down and they were instructed by the robbers to lie on the ground face-down as they robbed them of their valuables. Suddenly, a bus\u00a0from the opposite direction was approaching them\u00a0and the robbers signaled the bus to stop, but the driver failed to stop so he run into the passengers who were lying on the road. As a result of that, four out of the lot who were lying on the ground were run over by the According to Ebenezer Tetteh, scores of passengers who have sustained severe injuries are receiving treatment at the Gushiegu Government Hospital.<\/p>\n He says\u00a0the driver of the bus together with some passengers fled into the bush after the incident, adding that investigations are\u00a0ongoing to arrest the suspected robbers. By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Four persons were killed instantly when a truck ran over them on Sunday morning at Gushegu in the Northern Region. The victims before their death, had been attacked by some suspected armed robbers, who ordered them to lie on the streets as they robbed them and other passengers of their belongings. Confirming the incident to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":151770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"yoast_head":"\n
\nbus and they died\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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