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By Dennis Peprah\u00a0<\/p>\n
Branam-Wenchi (B\/R), Dec. 16, GNA \u2013 Suspected armed-robbers have shot and killed a-40-year-old physically challenged farmer at Branam, a farming community in the Wenchi Municipality of the Bono Region.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The body of the deceased, Yaw Takwa, has been deposited at the Wenchi Methodist Hospital for preservation and autopsy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During a visit to the area on Friday, the Ghana News Agency (GNA) learnt the sad incident happened on Wednesday, December 14, 2022, around 1100 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The shooting and subsequent death have created fear and panic among residents, mostly farmers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The incident happened between the Branam and Subinso stretch of the Wenchi-Bamboi highway, when the robbers stormed and robbed market women on their way to the Subinso market.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with the GNA, Mr Benjamin Ander, the Unit Committee Chairman of the Branam Electoral Area said a police patrol team had information about the robbery, rushed to the scene and exchanged bullets with the robbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the time, the deceased and his wife were working on their farm when they heard of gunshots, so he left the farm to ascertain the cause of the gunshot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHis wife waited for him at the farm and when she realized the deceased had kept long, she followed up and discovered him lying in a pool of blood, a few metres away,\u201d Mr Ander stated.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He expressed worry that armed-robberies were common on that particular stretch, especially on Wednesdays, being market days at Subinso, and appealed to the Police to beef up and intensify security patrols on the highway.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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