Police have intensified security at Chereponi in the Northern region, following clashes between supporters of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) that left one person dead and fourteen others injured.
Narrating the incident to Citi News, the Public Relations Officer for the Northern Regional Police Command, ASP Ebenezer Tetteh said : “Yesterday there was a rally for both the NDC and the NPP. There was no problem from both sides, the rally ended peacefully. After the rally at both towns, both parties were coming in convoy when they crossed their paths at a centralized location in the Chereponi township and that sparked a misunderstanding and a violent confrontation from both sides.Stones were hurled at each other.”
He said “the Police later managed to bring the situation under control and both sides were dispersed but at 12 midnight, they regrouped again and clashed this time around at a different location.”
According to him, “the second clash was so violent that pavilions were burnt and after the clashes there was one person who lost his life.”
“He was badly beaten and he died as a result of that and 14 others were also injured,” he added,
He said five out of the fourteen who were injured had been transferred to the Yendi Hospital for check up.
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(Via: CitiFM Online Ghana)
