The police on Wednesday, shot and killed two out of a number of suspected armed robbers during an exchange of fire at Pobiman near Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region, where they had gone to rob four houses. One of the robbers whom the police named as Robert Quarshie has been arrested while two others, named only as Rocky and Kofi, escaped in the course of the shoot-out. Three locally manufactured pistols and some cartridges were retrieved from the robbers after the operation.

The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the Police Hospital Mortuary in Accra. The Deputy Commander of the Greater Accra Regional Police Command, Alhaji Ismeal Saakah told newsmen that the police had a call at about 1am that suspected armed robbers had attacked some houses at Pobiman. A police team was quickly dispatched from Accra to the area where they condoned off one of the houses, which the suspected armed robbers had attacked.

Alhaji Saakah said when the police asked the robbers to surrender, they refused and instead engaged them in shoot-out.

In the process, two of the robbers were killed while one of them who sustained multiple injuries was arrested. Two of the robbers who sustained gunshot wounds managed to escape.

Preliminary police investigations revealed that the suspects left Accra on board a ‘trotro’ at about 6 p.m. to Medie, near Amasaman and spent the night in an uncompleted building. They started attacking their victims at about 12.30 am. When the police interrogated Quarshie, he revealed their operation was the third. The first two were carried out at Teshie, a suburb of Accra.