The late Sgt George Boakye
A soldier attached to the Flagstaff House was shot dead by suspected armed robbers who snatched his Toyota Prado at Accra Abattoir area on Friday at about 11pm.
Sergeant George Boakye, according to reports, was shot multiple times in the chest when he tried to get his weapon from the vehicle to defend himself.
Eyewitnesses said Sergeant Boakye, who was driving a Toyota Prado with registration number CR 1341-15 from Accra to Tema, made a stop at the Abattoir Area to urinate.
The armed robbers bolted with the vehicle but got involved in an accident on the Community 19 Bridge.
The hoodlums abandoned the vehicle and bolted.
Some Good Samaritans, who spotted the soldier in a pool of blood, rushed him to the 37 Military Hospital, for treatment but he passed on few hours later.
A police patrol team, led by D/Inspr John Nutsugah, was deployed to the scene where a Toyota Prado with registration number CR 1341-15 was found on the Community 19 Bridge.
Investigations by the Police indicated that the vehicle was snatched from the owner at Community 19, near the Accra Abattoir area, by armed robbers who shot him multiple times.
ASP Efia Tenge, Accra Regional Police Public Relations Officer, when contacted, said the police received a distress call from an unknown caller indicating that there had been sporadic shooting at Community 19.
The police discovered a Military ID card bearing the name Sergeant Boakye George of the Ghana Armed Forces attached to the office of the president in the vehicle.
She said the police had intensified efforts to arrest the perpetrators.
In the past week, two persons have been shot in separate robbery attacks at Ablekuma Borkorborkor and Odorkor Busia Junction.
Elijah Asante, 47, a supermarket attendant, was shot dead by the armed robbers after he tried to escape with the daily sales during an attack last Thursday at about 7pm.
The three armed men, who wore masks, later escaped in an unregistered vehicle.
At about 8:30pm on the same day, two armed robbers on an unregistered motorbike attacked a mobile money vendor at Odorkor-Busia Junction.
One of the bullets fired indiscriminately by the armed robbers hit the head of Jude Kwashie Sekufe, 60, who died on the spot.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey