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Ghana: robber shot dead in highway operation

Police at Buipe in the Central Gonja District of the Savannah Region have gunned down an armed robber at Lingbenkura, a farming community near Buipe on the Fufulso-Buipe highway in Ghana.

“The Command said they received a distress call that the robbers, believed to be of Fulani extraction, had taken over part of the highway,” according to Adom News.

The police team rushed to the scene but while approaching, the robbers who sighted them, opened fire on them.

The Police, while returning the fire, shot one of them while the others fled.

Items found on the deceased robber were a gun and three mobile phones.

The body has since been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital mortuary for identification.

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