Police arrest a member of "Al-Qaeda" gang

Kumasi, Sept 3, GNA- The Buffalo Unit of the Ghana Police Service on Sunday arrested a member of a gang of unemployed youth calling themselves "Al-Qaeda", impounded five motor-bikes they were using at Aboabo Number Two in the Kumasi.

The police have mounted a search for four other members of the group who escaped.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Wednesday, Mr Gideon Boateng of the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Unit said in recent times the gang has robbed residents in the metropolis of their mobile phones and money and engaged in other criminal activities.

He said at about 1130 hours on Sunday the gang, numbering about five, stormed the Kotoko Cinema Hall at Aboabo Number Two where a get-together was being held and without any provocation started causing commotion.

Mr Boateng said the Buffalo Unit had a tip-off and swooped on the area and arrested one of the members. The remaining four fled and left their motorbikes behind.