Residents and opinion leaders at Baniekrom in the Ahafo Ano South West District of the Ashanti Region are calling for police protection following a shooting incident that led to the death of three people in the area on Tuesday.
The deceased are youth from a nearby community who were shot by a fetish priest in the area, who claimed they were part of a group that came to attack him.
The incident happened in a secluded area near the residence of the suspect, a fetish priest named Osman Majeed.
Three of the young men died on the spot, and another person among the group, Channel One News understands, has also succumbed to gunshot wounds.
A day after the incident, bloodstains and bullet cartridges were visible at the scene.
Farmers who use the path where the incident happened avoided their farms on Wednesday, and a nearby school was temporarily closed down for safety concerns.
Although there is calm in the area, opinion leaders are calling for police protection.
The suspect is currently on the run as police make efforts to arrest him. The bodies were conveyed by police and deposited at the morgue.
”The community is somehow calm but there’s a little bit of fear among the residents here because today being a working day, that’s the farming day, they will, by all means, go to their farm, but they cannot go now and also a school that is closer to that place just close down for safety reasons because we don’t know what might happen.”
He added, “We are asking for protection from the police because the said Osman is a resident here against people who are outside the community, so we don’t know whether they are also planning for revenge.
“So all that we are pleading with the Police Service is to provide us with maximum security.”
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