Two people are battling gun wounds after they were shot by armed robbers at Mankrong Nkwanta in the Agona East District of the Central Region.
The victims include a mobile money vendor who was shot from a distance and an unspecified amount of money collected from him by the robbers, and another man who was shot in the leg at close range in his house.
According to a resident of the community, Jonathan Assan, the robbery incident occurred around 7 pm on Sunday, July 26, when the robbers began shooting sporadically at a filling station in the community.
The robbers also bolted with an unspecified amount of money from another mobile money vendor in the same community.
Even though police from Mankrong Nkwanta responded to the crime, they were incapable of tracing or apprehending the robbers, who later returned to block the Mankrong Nkwanta Bawjiase highway and robbed occupants of several vehicles at gunpoint.
Assan told Citi News that “even though we called for reinforcement from Swedru, we had no assistance”.
He said the robbers left the area after spending over thirty minutes on the highway.
Both victims of the robbery are currently undergoing treatment.
The development has left residents petrified as they strongly appeal for capacity building for the police in Mankrong Nkwanta.
