BREAKING NEWS: Wassa Akropong locals chase Chinese over suspected murder

Reports reaching Graphic Online from Wassa Akropong suggest that angry youth of the town are on the rampage following the shooting to death of a local by a Chinese national.

A combined team of police, military and traditional leaders are struggling to calm down the enraged youth who are baying for the blood of Chinese residents and have set ablaze a number vehicles and torched a house.

Details emerging from the incident indicate that the yet to be identified Chinese national shot and killed a local named Godwin Quaicoe over a misunderstanding resulting from a plumbing service.

Quaicoe is thought to have accompanied a plumber friend to collect an amount of GHS150 being charges for a plumbing job, from the Chinese. A misunderstanding ensued during which the Chinese shot Quaicoe, also known as Nana Buah.

The police have since recovered the body, which was soaked in blood.