A 40-year-old "Loading Boy", Bashiru Asongo, was on Wednesday night, murdered in cold blood during a scuffle with a colleague at the Bolgatanga lorry station.

The suspect, Atenga Amah, 37, popularly called "Sakora" who had initially been placed in police custody at the Bolgatanga Central Police Station, was on Thursday morning moved to an unknown place when the charge office was besieged by a mob that sought to avenge Asongo's death.

The police had to fire tear-gas to disperse the rowdy crowd. The Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Inspector Thomas Agbanyo, who briefed the press on the incident, said on Wednesday night the Lorry Station Manager, Mr Patrick Akolgo said he heard Amah repeatedly shouting "I will kill you".

He said Mr Akolgo and a few of his colleagues went to the scene and saw Asongo lying dead in a pool of blood.

Inspector Agbanyo said Amah had fled the scene but a search party later found him and handed him over to the police.

The suspect told the police during interrogation that he was relaxing at the station when Asongo and some other people approached him.

He said Asongo lit what he suspected to be Indian hemp but he advised him to stop smoking because the "big man at the station does not like that."

Amah told the police that Asongo took offence over his advice but he left the scene only to return later to see him sleeping on his mat.

Amah said when he asked him to give him the mat he refused and rather challenged him to a fight in course of which Amah stabbed him with a pair of scissors.

Police investigations continue.