Two injured women in Bawku conflict die

Bolgatanga, June 23, GNA - Two women, Madam Lucy Peter, who was pregnant and had a head injury and Madam Adisa Ayaab, whose throat was slit during the latest Bawku crises last Saturday died at the Bolgatanga Regional Hospital on Monday. The two were among nine persons, who suffered various degrees of injury at Duabula, near Sabongeri, in Bawku where some people attacked and killed nine people in retaliation to an earlier lynching of

Mr Abagre Zakaria, alias Amingo, a 55 year old man, who had gone searching for his missing horse. Speaking to the Press in Bolgatanga, Superintendent of Police,

Mr Victor Agbetornyo, Upper East Regional Crime Officer, said the

death toll since Saturday, had risen to 12 while seven injured

persons, two adults and five children were responding to treatment at the Bolgatanga Hospital.

According to the Crime Offi cer six people were arrested after the

body of Mr Zakaria was found and security personnel at Bawku

were screening them. He explained that Mr Zakaria had, in the company of two other

men gone to search for his missing horse and in the process got

kidnapped and stoned to death, while his two companions escaped

and went back home and mobilized a group of young men, who then

went back to Duabula and killed nine people while nine others got

injured. He said most of them were women and children, two of whom

died on Monday morning at the Bolgatanga Hospital. He said the

Police were investigating the two incidents. Meanwhile, sporadic gunshots near the Bawku market area on

Monday afternoon did not harm anybody and the perpetrators

absconded before security personnel got there, he said.