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.
