A/R: Police Gun Down Two Suspected Armed Robbers At Santase

Ashanti Regional Police Patrol Teams today 30th December, 2020 at 2:00am engaged some suspected armed robbers in a shootout leading to the death of two of them.

The suspected armed robbers numbering about four had embarked on a robbery expedition at Santasi Kajasi, Oteng Nkwanta and its environs, where they succeeded in robbing occupants of about five (5) houses of their monies, mobile phones, Laptops and other Personal effects.

The Police Information Room and Command Centre received a number of distress calls on the Robbery and dispatched Police Patrol Teams within the area to the Scene. The robbers on seeing Police opened fire.

The Team also returned fire leaving two of the suspected robbers between the ages of 20, and 30 years dead, two others who are suspected to have sustained gun shots wounds managed to escape.

Police spokesperson ASP Gordwin Ahianyo briefing the press about the incident said on the spot search at the scene, revealed two weapons: one foreign pistol loaded with three (3) live ammunition, One (1) revolver with three spent ammunition, two (2) big back packs containing three (3) Laptops Computers, Twenty-Four (24) assorted mobile phones, two machetes and a cash sum of Three Thousand Five Hundred and Eighty Cedis (3,580.00).

The bodies of the deceased persons have since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital awaiting identification and autopsy, whilst efforts are underway.