Police in the Upper East Region have begun an investigation into the robbery attack on Ghanaian tomato importers in Burkina Faso on Saturday (16 April 2022).
The police say, the families of the deceased persons and the wounded still on admission at the War Memorial Hospital in Navrongo, have been visited and the collection of intel has begun.
Two Ghanaian women, a tomato trader and a labourer were killed on Saturday when armed men attacked five tomato import vehicles in Tambolo, a town in neighbouring Burkina Faso.
The vehicles had entered the country to buy the commodity from farming communities there when the robbers blocked them midway and launched the attack.
Two other persons in the vehicles suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds and are still receiving treatment at the War Memorial Hospital.
The police public relations officer in the Upper East Region, Assistant Superintendent of Police, David Fianko-Okyere, told Asaase News the police are doing everything means to track down the attackers.
He assured the police in the region would continue to offer police escort to the traders.
Meanwhile, the police are yet to release the body of Acheigiba Assibi, one of the deceased persons, to the family for burial despite an appeal by the family.
Assibi, a native of Paga-Chania in the Kassena-Nankana West District, was one of the two women killed in the attack.
ASP Fianko-Okyere explains that the release of her mortal remains to the family without due process may hamper the investigation.
Senyalay Castro
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