One robbery suspect has been shot dead in a shootout with the police at the Nyariga Forest, along the Bolgatanga-Nyariga stretch in the Upper East Region.
On February 27, a team of police officers on patrol duty received a distress call that some robbers were attacking traders from the Nyariga market.
A statement from the police said the team encountered three young men wielding pump-action guns at the market.
They engaged the police in a shootout, and one was gunned down in the process, but the two others managed to escape.
The injured suspect was rushed to the regional hospital for treatment but was pronounced dead on arrival by the medical officer.
The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the regional hospital morgue.
Items retrieved from the deceased include a pump-action gun with serial No. MVS4951A loaded with five rounds of BB cartridge ammunition.
Also, a backpack containing 11 rounds of the same BB cartridge ammunition was retrieved from the scene.
The police have appealed to the chiefs and people of Nyariga to volunteer any credible information that will lead to the arrest of the other suspects, who are currently on the run.