Two armed robbers arrested

Two suspected armed robbers, who stormed a house at Laklevikope, near Denu, at the weekend have been arrested by the youth of the village and handed over to the Police at Denu in the Ketu District of the Volta Region.

Thomas Datsomor, 20, a mechanic apprentice from Nyangbo-Gagbefe, in the Hohoe District and Francis Bobo, 25, a lotto writer from Aflao, have been placed in Police custody pending investigations.

Datsomor and Bobo were pursued through marshes between Laklevikope and

Denu and arrested, while the third suspect, one Gademor also from Aflao, managed to escape.

The Denu Police said the three persons, who were armed with a locally made gun, a knife, cutlass and a crowbar, stormed the building in the afternoon, cut off telephone lines, subjected Madam Josephine Agblevor, a resident to severe beating and ransacked the house.

The robbers fled into the marshes nearby when they realised that Madam Agblevor's screams had attracted public attention leaving behind a 26-inch television set and a video deck they had taken from the house.

Madam Paulina Dorkenu, owner of the house, who was at the Denu Market, was informed and she reported to the Police.

When the Police arrived at Laklevikope the youth had arrested the robbers and said they found two television remote control devices on them.