A suspected robber has been lynched in a robbery incident at Chereponi in the Chereponi District of the North East Region.
A Benz bus carrying passengers from Tamale to Chereponi was attacked by two robbers around 8 pm on the night of March 27.
Information gathered indicates that one of the robbers was caught and arrested by an off-duty police.
Narrating the incident, a reporter said, “The bus was travelling from Tamale to Chereponi and a few minutes into the town, two robbers attacked the passengers and started taking their money and other valuables and one police officer who was not in uniform arrested one of the robbers who was later lynched by some angry residents that gathered around the car.”
He added that “one of the robbers fired his gun, which fell and so he ran away and the body of the other one was taken to the police station.”