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Accra Regional Command has intercepted two pump-action pistols and 100 rounds of AK 47 ammunition in a dawn robbery operation at a bank in Lashibi.
According to police, on Friday at dawn, around 2 am, about six unidentified gunmen attacked and robbed a bank in Lashibi.
In the process, the thieves fired at the vault lock, chiseled the vault wall to gain entry, and stole from the safe.
However, the shots from the scene attracted a police patrol team that moved in that direction.
The thieves, realizing that the police were approaching, managed to escape amid the shots.
A search of the scene led to the recovery of an electric cutter, a chisel, a harmer, 11 live 9mm rounds, and a round of spent ammunition.
An extension of the police search inside the enclave led to the arrest of two suspects.
Prince Ankrah and Albert Buckson, who were found in a parked taxi with the engine a few feet from the scene, are suspected of being under surveillance in connection with the robbery.
The reinforcement patrol teams at the scene of the robbery also intercepted a city bus suspected of being related to the same robbery, but its occupants seeing that the police escaped.
It was on the city bus that the police recovered the 2 pump action pistols and about 100 rounds of real AK47 ammunition.
Currently, the two suspects and the three private security personnel who were on duty at the time of the incident are being detained to assist in police investigations.
