A 36-year-old carpenter in Bunkprugu in the Northern Region James Jabik has been shot dead by soldiers  on peace keeping mission in the area.

The military accused the deceased person of breaking curfew which was imposed last week following violent clashes that left two people dead.

Narrating the circumstances surrounding the attack, a brother to the deceased, Dickson Labik told Joy News fully armed military men surrounded the house in which the deceased was living, a situation that created fear and panic.

According to him, residents including the deceased went hiding in their rooms when they noticed they had been surrounded.

"All of us went into hiding in our various rooms. His wife and children were in the room. When they came they entered and pulled the woman and children out  and saw the man hiding in between some sacks of maize. They dragged him out and shot him".

Labik Dickson claimed the military, at gun point, then forced the wife of the deceased to pull the man out of the room into the yard.

"The woman had to comply because she was afraid," he claimed, adding the military men went away after the act.

They then took the body of the deceased to the hospital.

But the Military has given a different account. While confirming the death, the military has a different story to tell about the circumstances under which James Jabik died.

The Director of Public Affairs at the Ghana Armed Force, Colonel Aggrey Quarshie said the deceased was shot during a struggle with the soldiers.

According to him, the military went to the house to arrest him for breaking the curfew but the deceased person armed himself with a machete and threatened to kill the military men.

"The gentleman broke curfew. When the military tried to arrest him he rather went into his house and came back with a cutlass".

"He also tried to take the soldier's weapon so in the struggle the weapon went off and he died.

"They took him to the hospital and he died there," Quarshie narrated.

He said they have begun an investigation into the matter.

The police say they have received conflicting narration of what happened from the deceased family and the military and are investigating the matter.