Two Ghanaian Tomato Traders Killed In Armed Robbery Attack

Tricia Tricia
Apr 18, 2022 - 02:07
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Two Ghanaian Tomato Traders Killed In Armed Robbery Attack
Three other traders who sustained various injury from gunshots and are in critical condition, are receiving treatment at the War Memorial Hospital in Navrongo in the Kassena Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region.

 

 

2 Ghanaians have died while 3 others are also in critical condition after some armed robbers attacked 5 tomato importing vehicles at Tambolo near Dakota in Burkina Faso and about half a mile from the Ghana border at the Paga. The five vehicles were on their way from Ghana to the Burkina Faso to buy tomatoes when the armed men

 

then attacked and shot at them sporadically killing one instantly at about 1900 hours, on the Saturday, April 16, 2022. The other passed on shortly after arriving at the War Memorial Hospital in the Kassena-Nankana Municipality of the Upper East Region, where the injured persons are currently receiving medical attention.

 

 

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Mr David Fianko-Okyere, Public Relations Officer, Upper East Regional Police Command, who confirmed the accident said the injured were responding to treatment, while the bodies of the deceased have also been deposited at the morgue of the hospital for preservation. ASP Fianko-Okyere who

 

 

could not give details investigation into the matter was ongoing. We still trying to get in contact with authorities in Burkina Faso to know the report that was sent there so that we can get more information, he said.According to one of the drivers, Mr Kofi Nti, the armed robbers shot at their vehicles compelling them to halt movement and

 

 

this led to the robbers driving out all the traders and demanding they surrounded all their monies to them which they did. But the armed robbers who were heard speaking twi demanded more and subjected all the women traders to severe beatings, severely injuring three, he added. They also shot through the windscreen

 

 

and killed one instantly, while the other who died afterwards sustained severe injuries and was bleeding profusely. The traders said the armed robbers numbering about seven fled on motorbikes after the attack. Nana Yaa, one of the traders narrated that her sister was the person who died instantly after the armed robbers shot

 

 

at them through the windscreen. She, apart from losing a relative and receiving beatings, also lost CFA 870,000. Madam Sophia Nsiah, another trader also lost all the CFA 90,000.00 that she was sending to buy her goods to the armed robbers.