Polling assistant receives gunshot wounds at Agogo

KUMASI, Ghana, -- A polling assistant and a Fire Service personnel conveying ballot boxes from the Afram Plains area to Konongo were shot at by unknown assailants at Agogo on Thursday night.

Mr Samuel Ntow, Deputy Ashanti Regional Director of the Electoral Commission (EC), told the Ghana News Agency that his office received information that the polling assistant was shot in the head and the Fire Service personnel in the shoulder and were rushed to the Agogo Presbyterian Hospital for emergency operation.

Mr Ntow said the Asante-Akim North District Electoral Officer is yet to furnish his office with the condition and names of the victims. In another development, Mr Ntow said a refuse truck belonging to the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) sent to the Atwima-Kwanwoma constituency to collect ballot boxes and election materials was vandalised by the people of Nweneso Number Two.

The attackers damaged the trucks windscreen and deflated its tyres during an alleged misunderstanding between the driver, a securityman and the people.