Techiman police kill 2 armed robbers

The Techiman police on Monday 25th June, 2007 engaged in a fierce shoot out with three suspected robbers on the Techiman-Tanoso road killing two of them in the process.

This occurred after the police had gotten a tip off from a Wenchi based police officer (name withheld) who was by then returning from Nkoranza that the robbers who were using a Toyota land cruiser with registration number GE 7575X were preparing to launch attack from a near by bush on the Techiman –Nkoranza road at about 5. 00pm.

According to a police source immediately after the tip off the police quickly set off towards the Nkoranza road but on their way met the suspects riding at top speed heading towards Sunyani direction of the road. The armed police did not give up but instead chased them to a portion of the road and decided to communicate with their fellow officers in the regional capital and waited at the Buoku junction whiles their colleagues at Sunyani closed in.

According to the police source the suspected armed robbers who were bent on achieving their goal decided to return to the Techiman end of the road.

This time luck eluded the suspects because the police saw them from afar and decided to chase them on the Techiman - Tanoso road setting the pace for an intensive shoot out. On reaching Tanoso Township, the suspected armed robbers parked the car just by the road side, pulled out locally manufactured pistols and engaged the police in a fierce gun battle. In the ensuing battle, two of the robbers were killed instantly.

The policemen led by Superintendent Addae Peprah took the dead bodies to Sunyani for autopsy. The Techiman municipal police command has made an appeal to the general public, more especially residents in Tanoso and its neighbouring communities to help trace the runaway suspect who they believe has been severely wounded.

In recent times the robbers have been tormenting the lives of innocent residents in Techiman, depriving them of their valuable properties. Anytime armed robbers find things difficult in Accra and other big cities, they decide to operate along the Kumasi-Techiman-Tamale