Seven people have been arrested following reprisal attacks at Bawku in the Upper East Region.As of the time of filing this report the identity of those arrested had not been ascertained.When contacted, however, the Upper East Regional Crime Officer, Chief Superintendent of Police Edward Tabiri, said he was yet to be briefed on the situation.But the Bawku Municipal Chief Executive, Mr Musah Abdulai, who gave an account of what happened to the Daily Graphic, indicated that two Kusasi men - Nuhu Akigu, 40, and Karimu Azong, 70 - were fired at close to the Kariyama Cattle Market, last Thursday, which was a market day.He said the victims ran to the market, which had a military detachment, but before then the military had also heard the gunshots and rushed to the scene where they chased the perpetrators but they were able to outrun the soldiers.He said the military then cordoned off the flash points in Bawku and mounted a search and with the aid of metal detectors arrested one Akolbila Foster near the Hospital area with a pistol.He said prior to this, Salifu Azumah and Salifu Yakubu, both Kusasis, had been attacked near Punsu, also around the cattle market, where they abandoned their bicycles and a ram, adding that a 16-year-old girl, Sakina Awindago from Zabugu, was also attacked near the water works area.The Municipal Chief Executive said one of the light armoured vehicles of the police which was rushing to the scene burst a tyre causing it to veer off the road hitting a 45-year-old woman, Madam Fulaira Tijani, who was selling iced water by the road.Mr Abdulai said victims of the attacks suffered minor injuries and were treated and discharged.Source: Daily Graphic