Two Police Officers drown In Oda River While Pursuing Armed Robbers In Jacobu

Two policemen have drowned in a river at Kobro village near Jacobu in the Amansie Central District of the Ashanti Region, Lance Corporal Stephen Kyeremeh and colleague Amedius Akwesi Boateng, both of Obuasi

District Police Command and two others identified as  Sergeant  Isaac Nyamekye James Ahiman who were on Obuasi Dunkwa highway patrol duties upon distress call that some small scale miners had been attacked by

armed robbers proceeded to Kobro. The officers in an effort to proceed to the scene hired a canoe to cross the Oda River to the site where the robbery attack was reported to have occurred but the robbers escaped

upon seeing Police. On their way back, the canoe on which all were on board capsized and the two sergeants managed to swim ashore whilst the other two Lance Corporals together with their service rifles are yet to be traced according to Detective Inspector Inkoom Isaac.