Suspected robber killed in shoot-out

Page 3: Daily Graphic, August 1, 2009.
Story: Albert K. Salia
AN exchange of fire between four suspected armed robbers and a police/military patrol team at Kasoa has resulted in the death of one of the robbers.
The three others managed to escape.
A pistol and a cutlass were retrieved from the scene of the robbery.
Briefing newsmen in Accra today, the Accra Regional Crime Officer, Superintendent Emmanuel Frank Adufati said the police/military team at Amanfrom were informed that four suspected armed robbers had attacked some persons at gun-point at Kasoa.
He said the robbers had collected GH¢80 and a CD walkman player from their victims, who were traders in fanmilk products.
He said not satisfied with what they got from their first victims, the suspected armed robbers entered a house with the view of robbing the occupants.
According to Supt. Adufati, because the police/military team was right on time, the suspected robbers could not rob the occupants of the house.
He said the robbers, rather opened fire at the police/military team with the view of escaping.
Supt. Adufati said one of the robbers was hit by a bullet resulting in his instant death.
The body of the deceased, he said, had been deposited at the Police Hospital Mortuary.