Calm has return to Bawku Municipality of the Upper East Region after two people were shot dead in two separate incidents during the weekend.
Workers are going on with their daily work schedules, businesses are running and school children are going to schools.
Police have identified shell of the ammunitions used for the shooting as being AK74 gun and are still investigating.
While one of them, identified as Hasmin Yakubu, 28, was shot at Sagabo, the other, whose name was given as Osman Inusah, died at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital where he had been rushed to after he had been shot at Possum, near the Bawku Cattle Market on Saturday.
Two others, whose names were given as Dambilla Issah, 68, and Tanko Haruna, 30, are receiving treatment at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen last Friday.
Issah is said to have been shot in the abdomen, while Haruna is said to have sustained multiple wounds on both arms, the right thigh and chest.
The Bawku Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Ebenezer Kwaku Asare, told Frontline that they suspect the guns came into Bawku and its environments though our neigbouring countries.
Chief Superintendent Kwaku Asare explained that Bawku is close to Togo and Burkina Faso so they suspect these guns might have been brought by these suspected criminals from these countries.
Workers are going on with their daily work schedules, businesses are running and school children are going to schools.
Police have identified shell of the ammunitions used for the shooting as being AK74 gun and are still investigating.
While one of them, identified as Hasmin Yakubu, 28, was shot at Sagabo, the other, whose name was given as Osman Inusah, died at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital where he had been rushed to after he had been shot at Possum, near the Bawku Cattle Market on Saturday.
Two others, whose names were given as Dambilla Issah, 68, and Tanko Haruna, 30, are receiving treatment at the Bawku Presbyterian Hospital after they were attacked by unidentified gunmen last Friday.
Issah is said to have been shot in the abdomen, while Haruna is said to have sustained multiple wounds on both arms, the right thigh and chest.
The Bawku Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Ebenezer Kwaku Asare, told Frontline that they suspect the guns came into Bawku and its environments though our neigbouring countries.
Chief Superintendent Kwaku Asare explained that Bawku is close to Togo and Burkina Faso so they suspect these guns might have been brought by these suspected criminals from these countries.
Source [Rainbowrdio.co.uk
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