A commercial urvan bus, popularly known as ‘trotro’, in the early hours of Wednesday April, 14, 2021, Summersaulted, injuring 11 of its occupants after running down two suspected robbers at Antieku, a suburb of Sowutuom in Accra in the Greater Accra region.
The driver, who was a witness to a robbery incident carried out by the two suspects on board a motorbike, hit the two in an attempt to stop them from speeding off.
According the Head of Public Affairs Unit of the Greater Accra Regional Police Command, DSP Effia Tenge, the incident happened at about 5:00am when the two suspects robbed a fruit seller at Antieku and jumped on their motorbike to escape.
DSP Effia Tenge explained that during their night patrols “they received a call from their control room indicating that there was an ongoing robbery at Antieku, a suburb of Sowutuom. Police proceeded to the scene and found the robbers, two in number, knocked down in a gutter nearby by an urvan bus loaded with passengers involved in an accident at the spot”.
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She said after the bus driver hit the suspects, the car Summersaulted, causing the passengers on board to sustain various degrees of injuries.
Four passengers who sustained severe injuries according to the police were immediately rushed to the Akawe Hospital in the Ga South Municipal for medical attention.
DSP Effia Tenge added that seven other passengers who sustained minor injuries and the two alleged robbers were also sent to the same hospital for treatment.
The two suspected robbers are currently in police custody.
By Shiela Satori Mensah