Officers of the Greater Accra Region Police Command on Wednesday night gunned down three suspected armed robbers near Ashaley-Botwe and are hunting for a fourth.
The group of four young men, armed with pistols and knives, engaged the services of a taxi driver to transport them from Kotoku to Dome in the Ga East Municipality.
On their way, they snatched the vehicle, a Nissan Micra taxicab with registration number GR 5251-13 from the driver.
A police patrol team was alerted.
Upon seeing the police closing in on them, the robbers were said to have opened fire and the police returned fire wounding the three robbers.
The taxi went into a ditch.
The robbers were said to have died whiles being taken to the hospital.
A fourth suspect took to his heels in spite of sustaining bullet wounds.
The police suspect he was hiding around Ashaley-Botwe, Madina or Adentan and have asked the public to be on the look out.
The police retrieved three locally made pistols, twenty live cartridges, two used cartridges, one foreign revolver and a sharp knife from the taxicab.
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