Man Run Over By Bus He Attempted Robbing In Savannah Region

A robber has died after being knocked down on the Mankpang-Adwoape road by a bus he tried robbing on Monday, September 7, 2020. The Mercedes Benz bus with registration No. GR 4336 D was travelling from the

Buipe market to Mpaha in the Savannah Region when the incident occurred. The Buipe Police Command in a statement noted that the driver of the bus, one Yakubu Fataw, spotted two men hiding in the bush when he

reached a section of the road between Mankpang and Adwoape. The driver run over one of the robbers who had emerged out of the bush with a shotgun. “One of them, armed with a shotgun, suddenly came out from

the bush and shot into the windscreen but the driver managed and knocked him down killing him instantly whilst the other fled through the bush,” the statement recounted. The vehicle then crashed after the driver lost

control, leaving some passengers injured. “Some of the passengers on board sustained various degrees of injury and were rushed to Tamale Teaching Hospital for treatment,” the statement indicated. The body of the

robber has been sent to the Tamale Teaching Hospital mortuary. Police retrieved three BB live cartridges, one shotgun and one used cartridge from deceased. The vehicle has also been towed to the Buipe police command.