AN exchange of gun fire between a gang of suspected armed robbers and the police in Kumasi last Thursday led to the death of two of the armed robbers.
While one of the suspected robbers who was hit in the head died on the spot, his accomplice who was shot in the chest, died on the way to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Four of their accomplices are, however, on the run.
The bodies of the two suspected armed robbers are yet to be identified and have been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital for autopsy.
The police retrieved an axe and a machete from the two suspected robbers who died during the gun battle.
The police told newsmen in Kumasi that earlier last Thursday, a police patrol team had information that a gang of about six armed robbers had attacked a drinking spot at Asokore Mampong, a Kumasi suburb.
The Asawase District Police Commander, DSP Andrews George Kumah, who briefed newsmen, said when the police patrol team got to the spot, the community had already organised themselves and were confronting the armed robbers.
He said during the exchange of gunfire, two of the robbers were hit — one in the head and the other in the chest — and when their accomplices saw that they had been overpowered, they quickly retreated and managed to escape.
DSP Kumah said the robbers who escaped might have received gunshot wounds and were likely to go to some medical facilities in the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs.
He, therefore, urged the public to report suspected characters to the police to assist them in their investigations.
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