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One Shot Dead And Two
Injured At Bawku
Bolgatanga, April 30
Ghanadot/GNA – One man was shot dead
and two others received gunshot wounds at the cattle market in
Bawku, when an unidentified gunman in an attempt to shoot a
motorbike rider rather shot a different person in the
arm.
The incident created panic among the crowd at the market and
people started running helter-skelter while others went for
their guns and started shooting.
Speaking from Bawku in a telephone interview with the Ghana News
Agency in Bolgatanga, Mr Musah Abdulai, Bawku Municipal Chief
Executive, said the first shooting started around 12.00 noon and
put the whole area into panic, especially as today, Thursday, is
a market day and many people were in town doing business.
He said the security personnel deployed troops to the vantage
areas in the Municipality and they had managed to bring the
situation under control.
Mr Abdulai said the security personnel were trying to maintain
the calm and to ensure that the violence did not erupt again.
The dead has been sent to the Bawku Hospital mortuary while the
injured are also receiving treatment.
Meanwhile, thieves took advantage of the confusion and drove
away cattle that had been sent to the market for sale.
GNA
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