Police chase robbers who escaped with female resident

Police in the Ashanti Region are on the heels of two robbers who robbed two families in a house at Abuakwa.

According to a statement from the Service, the robbers made away with some valuables and escaped with one of the residents.

“The Ashanti Regional Police has launched an intense anti-robbery operation to arrest two robbers who attacked two families in a house at Abuakwa in the Ashanti Region wielding machetes and robbed them of some valuables and also escaped with one of the female residents of the house”, said a tweet on their official social media page.

The police, in a series of tweets, narrated that the victims, at about 1:15 am heard an unusual noise at the main gate of their house and decided to find out what was happening.

“They came out to see what was happening and two men holding machetes suddenly emerged, pushed them back to their rooms and collected an unspecified sum of money and four mobile phones from them”, said another tweet.

The Service encouraged the public to be more security conscious.

“The Police are working around the clock to rescue the victim and bring the perpetrators to face justice. Whilst we do this, we wish to entreat the public to be security conscious at all times and avoid doing things that make them vulnerable to attacks.”