Renewed violence in Bakwu, two lynched

Bawku (U/E), April 1, GNA - Two people were lynched while two others sustained gunshot wounds in renewed violence in Bawku Township on Thursday morning but both the Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) and Police Commander declined to speak to the media.

Mr Musah Abdulai, the MCE, and Mr Godwin Cashman Blewushie, the Municipal Police Commander, told GNA that they were too busy trying to put things under control.

An Eyewitness told GNA that at about 1020 hours on Thursday there were sporadic gunshots in parts of the Township and people started running helter-skelter and for unexplained reasons a mob pounced on two men, whose identities were not immediately known, and lynched them near the Widana Station.

According to the Eyewitness a woman, who had been hit by bullet, was rushed to Dr Asaana Clinic on a motorbike while a man, bleeding from a gunshot wound on his shoulder, was seen running toward the Police Station. Meanwhile, armed Military and Police personnel on the ground have ordered the residents to go indoors, using Information Service Department vans to make the announcement. By 1400 hours all the streets in the Township had been deserted with security personnel patrolling.