One person has been reported dead after a gang of armed robbers opened fire on a bus which was carrying passengers from Bolgatanga towards Bawku.
According to the police, the robbers attacked the passengers around 2:00 am Tuesday in the hilly district capital, Zebilla, and opened fire on them.
One of the passengers, who is believed to be a Burkinabe was hit by the bullet and later died at the hospital.
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“An identity card found on the victim shows that he is a Burkinabe, aged 45 years. His body is in the morgue. It happened around one of the diverged routes along the main road under construction. An amount of money was found on the victim- Ghana money. We still suspect it’s something like a robbery,” the Bawku Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Yao Tettegah, told Accra-based Starr FM.
There was no police escort for the 207 bus. Reports say police escort for night travellers on that 84-kilometre road came to a halt after the municipal and district assemblies in that area stopped providing fuel support for the police escorts.