PHOTOS: 1 inmate confirmed dead in Kumasi central prison break
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One of the inmates of the the Kumasi Central Prisons was shot dead by a Police officer in last night’s attempted prison break, an official at the facility has confirmed.
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Kumasi Central Prisons, ASP Annan, “one of the prisoners on remand in the heat of the confusion tried to snatch a weapon from a policeman. Another officer looking on shot the prisoner and he died in the process.”
“The number of inmates who died are not two, it is just one,” ASP Annan stressed.He noted that “those the number of Police officers who got injured were more than four but the serious ones are about four and they are being treated at the hospital.”
He said; “The situation is calm. We got help from headquarters to join our force to bring the situation under control.”
The inmates clashed with the Police, in an evacuation exercise during the fire outbreak in parts of the prison on Wednesday night.
Some of them hurled bricks and other dangerous objects at the security operatives, injuring some of the officers.
Some inmates at the prisons reportedly tried to take advantage of the fire incident to break jail but they failed.
–By: Marian Efe Ansah
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