The Ashanti Region Police Command is appealing to Medical facilities in the Region and elsewhere to be on the lookout for anyone who visits their facilities with suspected gunshot wounds.
Two other suspected robbers were shot and killed by Police during a shoot-out. The suspects are part of armed robbers, numbering about four, who embarked on a robbery of Santasi Kajasi, Oteng Nkwanta and its environs in Kumasi.
The Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Godwin Ahianyo said the police received a number of distress calls on the robbery and dispatched Police Patrol Teams to deal with the situation.
According to ASP Ahianyo the robbers succeeded in robbing occupants of about five houses of their monies, mobile phones, Laptops and other Personal effects. The robbers on seeing Police opened fire which was returned by the team leaving two of the suspected robbers of ages 20 and 30dead, two others who sustained gunshots wounds managed to escape.
A search at the scene revealed two weapons: one foreign pistol loaded with three live ammunition, one revolver with three spent ammunition, two big backpacks containing three laptops 24 assorted mobile phones, two machetes and an amount of three 3,580 Cedis. The shootout occurred at 2:00 am yesterday.
The bodies of the deceased persons have since been deposited at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital awaiting identification and autopsy, whilst efforts are underway to get those who escaped.
