A reward of GH₵10,000 cedis has been announced by the Ghana Police Service to be given to any person who provides reliable information to the arrest of suspected armed robbers who shot and killed one police officer and wounded two on Wednesday in the Central Region.

The police officer, Lance Corporal Kingsley Boahen was said to have gone jogging when the incident occurred Wednesday dawn.

A press-released issued by the Police on Wednesday, January 22, 2020 revealed that the “incident occurred at about 02:00 hours, when the Police Patrol Team received a distress call from the ZEN filling station at Mankessim and upon arrival, the robbers opened fire injuring two Police Officers in the act”.

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According to the Central Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Deputy Superintendent of Police, Irene Serwaa Oppong, at about 04:30 hours of the same day, the body of the deceased Police Officer who was not on duty and was in civil clothing was found with gunshot wounds at a distance of about 200 meters away from the robbery scene.

Investigations according to the Police is ongoing to establish the facts of events leading to the death and injury.