Armed Robbers attack Ampomah Village

Armed robbers on Saturday attacked and robbed a resident of Ampomah Village, a residential area at Frafraha on the Accra Dodowa Road. The robbers who fled the scene before the police arrived, made away with cash running into millions of cedis and personal belongings including 30 full pieces of wax prints, compact disc and cassette players, school bags and building materials.

They also removed the engine of a Nissan Skyline saloon car belonging to the victim who is currently on admission at the Legon Hospital for head injuries he received following severe beatings by the robbers.

Narrating the incident to the GNA, the wife of the victim, who pleaded not to be named, said at about 1.30 a.m. on Saturday, she heard a strange noise behind the main door and rushed to the sitting room only to realise that thieves were trying to break into their room.
She said within seconds, the robbers, numbering about six, broke the door, entered the room and collected the mobile phone from her husband who was frantically trying to reach the police.
"Their first reaction was to hit my husband with the butt of a gun they were holding and led him to his bedroom as they asked where he had kept his money, especially dollars, clothes among other things," insisting that if he refused they will kill him.
The woman said as she pleaded with them not to kill her husband, two of the robbers began to slap her and warned her not to shout as they led her to the sitting room demanding her jewellery, money and cloths."
She said they locked her up in the sitting room, went into the children's room and ordered them to lie on their beds. The robbers, she said, also knocked them on their heads warning them not to get up.
According to her, at that moment two of the robbers, whom she believed were firing warning shots outside, joined them to ransack the house, she said. Her husband, who was then bleeding profusely through the nostrils and mouth, with his arms tied by the robbers, was asked to open his wardrobe, suitcases and drawers.
She said amidst pleas to the robbers not to kill him, he asked them to take whatever they wanted as they bundled his full pieces of wax prints, money, disc recorder and documents.
The robbers who spent about one hour in the house, drank and urinated in the room before they left after locking their victims. She said the robbers also took keys to the doors away.
She said their neighbours came to their rescue after the robbers had left. She said one of them informed the police when he heard her initial shouts for help. The police, however, arrived an hour after the robbers had left and her husband had been sent to the hospital.
The Madina Police is investigating.
This is the third time in two weeks that robbers have attacked residents of the area.
A woman was shot in the leg, while a man was wounded.