One person died and police arrested two people in Yendi

General News of Sunday, January 20th, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-01-20

One person was confirmed dead and two others were arrested with an AK 47 badault rifle in Yendi during curfew on Friday, 18 January 2019 in the evening.

The two men were arrested for attempting to disrupt customary and traditional rites performed in accordance with the seeding of the newly selected Yaa-Naa at Gbewaa Palace in Yendi, after firing shots from a house abandoned to the palace.

The deceased, who would have been in his thirties, was found dead in the precincts of the said house located a few meters from the main palace of Gbewaa, where gunmen began shooting to disrupt the process of linking. Yaa Naa.

Armed men who have stopped since their arrest have refused to reveal their identity to the police.

However, rituals continued in the midst of high security drums and gunfire on January 19, 2010 at midnight, around 12:45 pm and activities ended around 5:30 am.

Police

Northern Regional Police Command (PR) public relations officer, Mr. Mohammed Yussif Tanko, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), confirmed that the incident on Graphic Online had indicated that calm had returned at the Gbewaa Palace and the entire municipality. the situation is monitored.

Online Graphic Briefing on the incident, said DSP Tanko around 9:25 pm Friday. On January 18, 2019, a few hours after curfew, while rituals were about to begin at Gbewaa Palace, according to the customs and tradition of the bagging of the newly elected Yaa Naa, sporadic shootings Suddenly occurred in the presence of unknown guards from an abandoned house located a few meters from the main palace of Gbewaa where rites were going to take place.

DSP Tanko said the ground security personnel had fired back and sued the gunmen inside the building after the police and the army surrounded him.

"Two men, however, were arrested with an AK 47 badault rifle and an unidentified man who was reportedly in his thirties was also found dead in the compound of the said house from which the shots were fired. ", did he declare.

DSP Tanko said that the two arrested men had since refused to reveal their identity to the police, while the body of the deceased had been dropped off at the morgue of the Yendi government hospital after his death was confirmed by a police officer. health of the hospital.