One killed, others injured after robbery attack at Goil fuel station at Wassa Akropong

One person has been killed with others injured at Wassa Akropong in the Amenfi East Municipality of the Western North Region after four armed robbers invaded a Goil fuel pump station.

Rivers FM’s Akoa Paul has been telling Daakyehemaa Adwoa Asantewaa on Onua News that the deceased was a former military officer who provides security for the newly constructed fuel station which is less than a year old.

He reports that around 1 am Monday, August 16, 2022, four robbers who were armed with metals, dressed in all black attire with masks covering their entire heads stormed the station and attacked the first security with the metals they had picked from the fuel station, gasping his brains from the the skull.

Speaking to journalists within the enclave, some victims of the attack narrated the robbers entered the mart after seizing the gun of the second security officer who is also a retired military officer.

Their numerous attempts to fire the gun at the remaining workers failed because the officer had locked the gun.

About four females and two males were also at the station who were attacked, injuring some of them.

The injured have been sent to the Wassa Akropong Government Hospital receiving treatment.

The matter has been reported to the Wassa Akropong Police station who are currently investigating the matter.

Meanwhile, the robbers were all captured by the CCTV cameras at the station, but but cannot be identified because they had covered their faces.

Akoa Paul added that the robbery incidents in the municipality is on the surge because there were only two police stations in the whole municipality until a third one was recently commissioned at Jukwa.

He reports this is about the fifth robbery attack in the municipality this year where some group of robbers shot at traders and gold dealers sporadically one Thursday evening between 5 to 6pm.

By Felix Anim-Appau