Abiriw Akuapem (E/R), Jan. 27, GNA - Two farmers from Abiriw, Kwabena Adu, 35, and Kwadwo Adu, 36, were injured when they were shot in the chest and in the hip respectively on Wednesday by some youth from Dawu over a disputed land.
The two, together with five others, had gone to the land between the two towns when some angry youth from Dawu opened fire on them.
One other person, Asiamah Bekoe, 40, was kidnapped.
When news of the incidence got to the people of Abiriw, the youth from the area armed themselves and blocked the main street leading to the town in a bid to search every passing vehicle to vent their anger on those believed to be citizens of Dawu.
But intervention by the police from Akropong and Koforidua prevented the angry youth from carrying out their plan.
The two injured young men were taken to the Tetteh Quarshie Memorial Hospital at Mampong Akuapem but the whereabouts of the one kidnapped was still unknown.
Briefing the Ghana News Agency at Abiriw, the Akropong Divisional Police Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Anthony Addepa, said the police received information that some youth from Abiriw who went to their farms on the disputed land had been shot by some youth of Dawu.
He said a team of armed policemen were deployed to the scene where the victims were seen in pools of blood and taken to the hospital.
Mr Addepa said to prevent a possible clash between youth from the two towns the police went to the palaces of the chiefs of the two towns and appealed to the chiefs to advice their youth to desist from any violent act.
He said the police had arrested one Kwame Henaku suspected to be the brain behind the incident.
GNA
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