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Four armed robbers have gunned down the caretaker of the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Bantama, a suburb in Kumasi of the Ashanti Region, Mark Amofah on Tuesday, June 30, 2020.
The deceased who was returning from bank was attacked by four armed robbers on two unregistered motorbikes.
The armed robbers reportedly took away GH¢4,300 cash belonging to the Church and shot him at a close range in the chest.
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An eyewitness narrated that, ‘At about 1:00PM after school had closed; we heard a very loud noise. We thought it was a tyre burst. Upon closer check, we saw the man in a pool of blood. He had gone to the Abrepo Junction branch of Ecobank, about 5-minutes drive to withdraw some cash for the church,” one eye witness narrated to JoyNews.
“The armed robbers, two on an unregistered motorbike each, trailed him from the bank. They pushed him into this corner before robbing him. His shouts of ‘armed robbers, armed robbers!’ may have infuriated the attackers. One of them ordered the other with the money to shoot him.”
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“Amofah collapsed here [pointing to the ground] and bled profusely. Taxi drivers declined to pick him to hospital, apparently, because of the blood until the church bus arrived to convey him to Komfo Anokye Hospital. We were informed of his passing at about 1:30 p.m,” he said.
Meanwhile the police have begun their investigations but as at the time of filing this report, no arrest has been made.
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