Monday, February 4, 2008

Armed men seize car- mirror page 43, February 2

Story: Tim Dzamboe, Ho

Three men wielding locally manufactured pistols have a hijacked a private car an Opel Astral with registration number GT 24 U and tied the owner into the bout and dumped him at an unknown destination.
The incident occurred at the Bame junction in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region when the car owner Francis Dunyo, 29, was driving from Kete-Krachi together with pregnant wife, Rejoice Sekpeku, 23, towards Mafi –Kumasi and met the ordeal.
According the public relations officer of the Volta Region police command, Inspector Joy Afagbedzi, at Bame junction on a section of the road the car owner stopped and picked a person who feigned serious sickness.
He said as soon as the car stopped, three other armed men wielding pistols emerged from the bush and surrounded the car and seized the driver, tied him with a rope and dumped him in the bout of the car and drove off.
Inspector Agfagbedzi said the mobile phone of the pregnant wife of Dunyo was taken away from her and was left behind at the scene adding that where the car owner was discharged was not known.
He however said the wife had reported to the Anyirawase police that the husband was alive at Mafi-Kumasi but cannot trace the car.
Inspector Afagbedzi appealed to the general public to volunteer information leading to the arrest of the assailants on telephone numbers 0244947688, 0242556428.

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