Two people have been confirmed dead following clashes between two factions in Dankyira, a town near Amasaman in Accra on Tuesday.ASP Zingi spokesperson of the Greater Accra Regional Police Command blamed the clashes on “chronic land disputes” in the area.One of the victims, Joy news has learnt, is a local chief in the area, but the police are yet to confirm that.ASP Zingi said the Regional Police Commander DCOP Rose Bio Atinga on hearing the news of the clashes quickly dispatched police personnel to the area to restore peace, “but before the arrival of the men, in fact some two people’s lives were already gone,” he narrated.“The police are still there maintaining law and order so that further lives will not be lost,” he added.He said a number of suspects have been picked in connection with the violence but was not ready to divulge the total number.The suspects will be screened and the innocent ones set free, he noted.Tuesday’s skirmishes is the third in line of chieftaincy and land-related-violence which has claimed a total of six lives in parts of the country, this month.The first was the Tuobodom and Techiman chieftaincy crisis which claimed three lives. On Monday evening, a local chief in Shigu, a suburb of Tamale was also killed on his motor bike by an unknown assailant.Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana