Four suspected kidnappers have reportedly been killed by irate youth at Busunu in the West Gonja District of the Savannah region.
This was during a clash with the suspects in a bush after the youth went to search for a little girl they kidnapped.
The Savannah Regional Police PRO, Owusu Agyekum, who confirmed the incident to Adom News said the suspects engaged the youth in a gun battle.
“At about 2 pm on Wednesday, the Yagbonwura chief linguist, together with one Alhaji Abudu Afuli and the Busunu Fulani Chief, Alhaji Amidu Braimah, came to lodge a complaint that 4-year-old Osumanu Seidu had been kidnapped,” he narrated.
This, he said caused the police to deploy a search party team, led by Adamu Amadu, who ran into a group of kidnappers in the bush.
“The kidnappers started shooting at them and they also shot back, killing four of them. On receipt of the report, the Deputy Regional Police Commander; DCOP/Mr. Ebenezer Larbi, the Regional Crime officer, and other policemen proceeded to the Scene of Crime in the bush, a distance of about four miles away from the Busunu township,” he added.
The police upon arrival, retrieved the bodies of four male adults believed to be of Fulani extracts, lying in a pool of blood.
The suspects, aged between 18 and 34, were found dead in prone and others in supine positions with multiple gunshot wounds.
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Meanwhile, one Adamu Amadu who sustained gunshot wounds on the left arm was rushed to the Busunu Health Center where he was treated and discharged.
A pair of white-blue rubber shoes, a pair of sandals and a pair of camboo, and four empty BB cartridges were found at the crime scene, and same retained for investigations.
The bodies of the four yet-to-be-identified persons have been conveyed and deposited at the West Gonja District Hospital morgue for preservation.
Listen to the police PRO in the audio attached below: