Akyem Oda, June 6, GNA- A 45 year old woman, Akua Boaduwaah, was shot dead on Tuesday when armed robbers attacked passengers in a bus at Akyem Asantemang on the Akyem Oda - Agona Swedru road. The armed robbers succeeded in robbing them of undisclosed sums of monies, mobile phones and other valuables. Corporal William Agbenyegah, a soldier on course duty at the Jungle Warfare Training School at Akyem Achiase, who was also on board the bus was shot in the stomach and had to go through surgical operation at the Akyem Oda Government hospital.

Jafaru Zakari, the driver of the vehicle with registration number GT 356x was shot in the head and is in critical condition at the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sampson Agbeko, Akyem Oda Divisional Police Crime Officer told the GNA that at about 2130 hours on Tuesday, policemen on duty at the Akyem Asantemang barrier reported that eight armed men wielding AK 47 rifles blocked the road a few kilometres away.

He said the robbers suspected to be of Fulani extraction stopped a fleet of vehicles from both directions on the road and subjected the passengers to severe beatings and robbed them of their possessions. Mr Agbeko said the robbers managed to escapee into the thick forest before the police got to the scene.