Police in Kumasi have shot and killed a suspected armed robber and arrested four others at Ayeduase near the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology after they attempted to rob a mining company. The deceased, identified as Nana Yaw and his gang opened fire on seeing personnel of the Buffalo Unit who had responded to a distress call from residents of a house under siege. Nana Yaw died on the way to hospital after he was hit by a bullet but his accomplices, wielding a pump action gun and two locally manufactured pistols managed to escape. A toy gun, knife and four used and twelve live cartridges were found on the deceased. In another development, four suspected armed robbers who planned to attack a Chinese mining firm have been arrested. Twenty-nine year old Moses Mumuni, Kofi Kumi who is 25 and Osei Kofi, 31 were arrested together with a taxi driver, Kwabena Antwi, following a tip-off. They had plotted to attack Hansol Mining Company at Atabrakoso located on the main Obuasi-Dunkwa road.