The Ashanti Regional Law enforcement command is blaming the general public for disturbing a criminal offense scene the place they engaged an armed theft gang.
They mentioned this led to the escape of some of the suspects.
Two users of a 6-armed theft gang were gunned down by the police at Santasi a suburb of Kumasi on Tuesday.
This was following the robbers experienced engaged the law enforcement in a shootout.
The police have been adhering to up on intelligence that the group was preparing an assault on some inhabitants in the city.
Police accosted them, ensuing in a gun struggle at about 6:45 pm on Tuesday.
Not even the appears of rifles worried the citizens who came out boldly in their numbers to witness the shootout.
Deputy Ashanti Regional Commander, DCOP David Agyemang Adjem advised Pleasure News the presence of the inhabitants constrained the police’s movement in that operation.
“It did enormously have an impact on us because but for that, we would have been ready to arrest the kinds who have been fleeing but for the reason that there ended up much too numerous individuals there, we could not do what was anticipated of us,” he stated.
DCOP Adjem wishes the community to chorus from interfering in these types of operations in the future due to the fact it could be harmful for them.
“If you listen to gunshots, make sure you remain wherever you are and acquire include fairly arrive out simply because a stray bullet can easily strike you. We are fortunate that none of them was hurt in the shootout,” he said.
That notwithstanding, two associates of the theft gang have been gunned down by the workforce just after about 15-minutes of a gun fight.
Their bullet-ridden bodies and the black BMW vehicle they ended up utilizing was despatched to the Ashanti regional law enforcement headquarters.
DCOP Adjem explained the group is connected to automobile snatching and robbery in the region.
They are alleged to have carried out the Manso Dadease robbery incident in which a gold supplier was the focus on.
3 people together with the driver of CEO for Amansie South, Williams Asante Bediako were being killed by the robbers.