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One more person has been confirmed dead in clashes between some residents and the Police in Cape Coast in the Central Region.
The residents believe the man whose name has not been given yet, died of a gunshot wounds sustained during the clashes with the police.
This was revealed at a closed door meeting between residents of the town, the Cape Coast Traditional Council, the Regional Security Council and the Metro Security Council on Monday.
Some angry youth in Cape Coast had attacked the police station in the area destroying dozens of properties belonging to the police, Sunday.
The attack, according to the youth is to avenge the death of one of their colleagues who died on Friday after the police swooped in on them.
Reports say the police raided the community to flush out criminal elements but one person died in the exercise.
The attacks led to chaos and some disturbances in the town, Joy News' Central Region correspondent Richard Kwadwo Nyarko reported.
Some of the angry youth told Kwadwo Nyarko the police assaulted the deceased person, Kwasi Sabado, before putting him in custody.
He was later confirmed dead after he was rushed to the Cape Coast Metro Hospital.
A meeting was called to resolve the dispute between the two parties. The residents revealed at the meeting that a gunshot from the police had killed a second person.
Speaking to Joy News’ Richard Kwadwo Nyarko, the Central regional Police Commander, DCOP Ransford Moses Ninson, denied claims that the resident was shot by the police.
According to him, the shot might have come from a resident as some of them fired shots at the police using their locally manufactured guns.
The bodies of the deceased persons have since been deposited at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital morgue.
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