A police officer believed to be in his early thirties has been shot and killed at Kalba in the Sawla/Tuna/Kalba district of the Northern Region.

The incident happened on Friday, March 25 at 12 p.m. whilst the police officer was in the town to monitor activities of unlawful motor riders.

A journalist of Yagbon Radio, Joseph Wereh, said a friend disclosed to him that at the time the police officer was in the town, there was a robbery incident also taking place not too far away from the market.

He said the police officer who has been identified as Yaw was not aware of the robbery incident.

According to him, it is the practice that on every market day, the District Police Department sends some police officers to check on excess behaviors of motor riders so the policeman was in the town to monitor that.

When the two armed robbers were fleeing after the robbery, they ran into the police officer standing by his motorbike.

Suspecting the police officer has been hinted of their robbery, the two opened fire shooting him twice in the chest.

They later fled through the market out of the town.

Wereh told Myjoyonline.com's Austin Brako-Powers that when people rushed to the scene, they found the officer lying on the ground with his legs hanging on the motor.

He said some of the people dialed the police emergency numbers for immediate assistance but it took more than one hour for the police to show up.

The body has since been conveyed to a morgue in the district.