Dunkwa: Armed robbers kill Chinese at mining site

A 4-member robbery gang last Monday, shot and killed a 29-year-old Chinese national at Nyinawusu near Dunkwa On Offin. The victim Zhan Jin Hu died instantly when the gun-wielding gang attacked the mining site. Police arrested a member of the 4-member robbery gang.

Zhan Jin Hu was working on a broken down excavator with Guan Zhin, another Chinese when the attack occurred. The robbers shot the deceased without any provocation and bolted with an unspecified quantity of black ore containing gold.

Ernest Boakye, a 23-year-old man, identified as a member of the gang has been arrested. Boakye and his accomplice, Emmanuel Addai had gone to the mining site to rob again, a day after Mr Zhan was killed. But their attempt to snatch a motorbike from its owner failed after the young man raised an alarm.

Unluckily for them, Addai got lynched by residents of Nyinawusu until the assemblyman for the area rescued Boakye. Meanwhile, police have handed over the body of the late Zhan Jin to the Chinese Community after an autopsy.