Salaga police launch manhunt for hit-and-run driver
The Salaga Police in the Northern Region have launched a manhunt for a hit-and-run driver who knocked and killed two students of the Navorongo Campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS), on the Salaga-Tamale road, last Thursday night.
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The students, whose names have been given as Abdul Rauf Ibrahim, 25, and Alhassan Awudu 22, who were both final year students, were returning from Salaga on a motorbike, after they had gone to collect data to complete their project work.
Appeal
The Salaga District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Mr Simon Amenu, who disclosed this, said the police would not leave any stone unturned to get the driver of the vehicle that knocked down and killed the two students.
He has, therefore, appealed to members of the public who have any vital information on the accident and the vehicle involved not to hesitate to contact the police.
According to DSP Amenu, the police had information that two persons were lying by the roadside at a point near Kasawurape, a community on the Tamale-Salaga road.
He said the police went to the scene to collect the bodies of the students.
It would be recalled that the Daily Graphic in its Saturday, June 11, 2016 issue, published a story with the headline “Two UDS students killed in accident”.
Fulfulso Junction
In a related development, two persons have been killed and one critically injured in an accident that occurred at the Fulfulso Junction near the police barrier on the Buipe- Tamale Highway in the Central Gonja District, last Friday night.
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The two persons and the injured were on board a Mercedes Benz saloon car with registration number GN6186-12 which ran into an articulated truck also with registration number 11HL602 believed to be on its way to Burkina Faso.
The driver of the saloon car and a passenger in the front seat died on the spot.
The deceased persons have been identified as Freeman Bright Yao and Makafui Tamakloe, who were travelling from Sunyani to Tamale.
Eyewitnesses
According to eyewitnesses, both vehicles were travelling up north when the car ran into the truck at the police barrier near the Fulfulso junction.
The driver of the car was believed to have lost control of the vehicle when the truck made a sudden stop allegedly upon the orders of the police at the barrier.
The bodies have since been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital Mortuary.