Police are urging the public to volunteer information that may lead to the arrest of suspected armed robbers who attacked a bullion van in broad daylight at a suburb of Accra, on Monday, June 14, 2021, killing two people.
Already police in Accra have launched investigations into the attack.
“Our crime scene experts have been invited to process the crime scene as part of investigations to get the perpetrators arrested. Meanwhile, anyone with information on the incident should kindly contact the Accra Regional Police Command,†the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Regional Police Command, Efia Tenge, told the media.
The attack on a bullion van by suspected armed robbers resulted in the death of a police officer escorting the vehicle and an onlooker, a 40-year-old mother of three who had been selling her wares close to the scene of the incident.
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According to the police, the incident happened at Adedenkpo, close to James Town, a suburb of Accra.
Reports trickling in suggest that the bullion van, which was filled with cash, was trailed by the robbers in a taxi and another one on a motorbike.
When the van reached the scene of the incident, the suspected robbers attacked the van by firing indiscriminately at it and killing the police officer who had been detailed to provide security for the van.
The police officer died instantly, according to Prime News sources.
The driver of the bullion van sustained severe injuries and is currently receiving treatment at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
An eyewitness has told the media that the suspected robbers sound like foreigners from one of the countries in the ECOWAS subregion.
The attackers bolted with a safe containing an unspecified amount of cash on a motorbike, the eyewitness said.
Bold attacks by armed robbers have been on a rise recently, especially in the capital.
Last week, June 9, two armed men broke into a forex bureau near Honeysuckle in Osu in broad daylight.
Amateur footage of the robbery posted on social media showed the robbers raiding the forex bureau while the only security officer on duty stood helpless with a stick in his hand.
Monday's incident makes the 4th of such bold attackers by criminals in two weeks.
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