Intelligence gathered by Police indicates that the highway robbery gang that attacked passenger vehicles and Shot ambulance drivers was made up of eight (8) robbers including a woman all suspected to be of Fulani extraction.
Police Sources indicate that some victims have vividly described the robbers to Police which further intelligent is being picked for their arrest.
Meanwhile, Fulani herdsmen in some Communities around Aseseeso near Adukrom in the Okere District have deserted their homes after the recent robbery incident.
Armed Police personnel led by the Adukrom Police Commander invaded the communities and combed the area for possible arrest of the suspects numbering eight including a female all believe to be Fulani herdsmen, but we’re not successful as the Fulanis have run away from their homes.
The Ambulance driver, Senior Emergency Medical Technician – Abraham Tetteh died at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra Saturday morning.
Highway robbers on Thursday, February 4, 2021, at about 1:00 am dawn attacked the ambulance vehicle and shot the driver in the head while rushing a pregnant woman in labor from the Akuse Government Hospital to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua
Information gathered indicates that the driver in charge of Yilo Krobo Constituency Ambulance vehicle with registration Number GV 644-20 went to pick the woman who was in preterm labor (31 weeks) from Akuse government Hospital to Eastern Regional Hospital since Akuse Hospital has no incubator.
However, the vehicle bumped into the robbery operation on the Aseseeso community stretch of the road. The armed robbers upon seeing the beacon light started shooting into the vehicle from a range which led to the gunshot wound of the driver.
The armed robbers rushed closer to the Ambulance Vehicle and upon noticing it wasn’t police still went ahead to demand money from the EMT personnel taken care of the pregnant woman which they collected from her at gunpoint Ghc11 and mobile phone and fondled her breast.
A victim who was in one of the vehicles robbed by the armed robbers got down from the vehicle after the robbers had fled and drove the Ambulance together with the injured officer and the pregnant women to Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital.
The ambulance driver was in critical condition but was resuscitated and referred to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital but died later while the traumatic pregnant woman was referred to the Eastern Regional Hospital in Koforidua where she delivered.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Obed Ansah
