The Northern Regional Police have mounted a search for two young men who allegedly shot one person dead and wounded another when they went on a robbery mission in Buipe at dawn on Monday. The two, who are believed to be Fulanis, allegedly shot 45-year-old Amidu Kwadja in the stomach and slashed the hands of another person. The body of Kwadja has been deposited at the morgue, while the other victim, whose identity was not immediately available, is currently receiving treatment at the Buipe Health Centre. Narrating the incident to the Daily Graphic, the Police Public Relations Officer (PRO) in the Northern Region, Chief Inspector Ebenezer Tetteh, said the two suspects attacked a man identified as Manu Yaro in his house at the Buipe Bridge area between 12p.m. and 1a.m. on Monday. “They knocked on his door and when he opened, they asked him to give them a bag that they claimed contained a large amount of money,” he stated. He said investigations revealed that the robbers had a tip-off that a brother of Yaro, who is a cattle farmer, had visited him and given him the bag. “Unfortunately on their part, Yaro’s brother, who was indeed in town, was not with Yaro at that time neither had he left any bag with him,” he added. Chief Insp. Tetteh said an argument ensued between Yaro and the two men because Yaro insisted that his brother had not left any bag containing money with him. He said in the heat of the argument, a neighbour who was attracted to the scene by the noise challenged the two men to leave the house, but unfortunately for him, one of the two men who was infuriated by his action slashed his hand with a machete. According to the PRO, the two men later forced themselves into the Yaro's room, took out a bag that they thought was the one containing the money and left the scene. He said on the way, they met Amidu Kwadja and shot him in the stomach. “We are yet to ascertain why they shot him, but we believe it might be out of fear or maybe he reproached them,” Chief Inspector Tetteh stated. Following the incident, the PRO said that the Buipe police had alerted the residents to be on the lookout for any suspicious characters and report them to the police. In another incident, four bare-chested armed men barricaded a portion of the Yapei-Buipe road and attempted robbing occupants of vehicles that used the route. A driver of a Free Zones Board truck, with registration number FZB 214 Z, Adamu Yakubu, drove past the barricade, but his windscreen was perforated by a bullet while his mate sustained minor injuries on his finger from the shot. Yakubu reported the incident when he got to the police checkpoint at Buipe, but when the patrol team drove to the spot the men had fled the scene. Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana