Police in Kumasi are alleged to have beaten a basic school teacher to death in their attempt to evict residents of Buokrom, a suburb of the metropolis. Samuel Asamoah reportedly died a day after the police assaulted him. Authorities at the Saint Stephen International School where the deceased worked say police officers and machomen dispatched for the eviction exercise last Friday, assaulted the teacher before forcing the children out of the classroom. They say although the deceased tried to lodge a complaint after the incident, the Asawasi Police refused to take his statement. The Proprietor of the school, Stephen Kwame Frimpong told Saeed Ali Yakub of Luv FM in Kumasi that the late head teacher had complained of pain in the ribs allegedly from the beating he received at the hands of the police and machomen, for challenging the legality of the exercise. He was reported to have started vomiting blood and died while being rushed to t he hospital. But the police are denying the allegation. The Asawase District Police Commander, ASP Kumah said it was premature to suggest that the deceased died from the alleged assault and asked the public to stop peddling the rumour and rather wait for a post mortem. The eviction exercise has come about as a result of a change in the ownership of the land on which they have constructed their structures. Landlords and occupants of over 130 houses will be rendered homeless. The hundreds of people affected by the eviction say they have no money to rent new accommodation and there seems to be little intervention. The land had for thirty years been a subject of litigation between Buokromhene Nana Owusu Bempah who allocated the plots to developers and Dentesohene Nana Adjei Kwarteng. Still in the Ashanti Region, there is a heightened sense of insecurity following the upsurge in murders and other violent crimes. In what has become the latest of a series of armed attacks in the region, a security guard, Emmanuel Atiso was gunned down in cold blood by an unidentified assailant on Monday. His death came barely two days after the bizarre killing of a former employee of the Ghana Water Company Ibrahim Seidu.