Some factions of the Ga state in the Greater Accra region were involved in a fight at the Ga Mantse in Accra yesterday.
According to reports from Daily Graphic, the clash has forced some residents of North Kaneshie to run for their lives.
There were also reported cases of gun battles at the palace of the Ga Mantse.
The incident, which occurred around 8 a.m., also brought business activities around North Kaneshie and its surrounding communities to a halt, with employees and business owners abandoning their shops for fear of being hit by stray bullets.
The gun exchange was so dreadful to the extent that most of the people who fled, majority of them women, had to beg occupants of some houses to hide them in those houses.
Although the police were present in their numbers on the premises of the Ga Mantse Palace, the two groups were not bothered, as they kept firing at each other.
In the course of the exchanges, three men sustained injuries. One of them, who had used a machete to slash the right hand of another person, was nearly lynched but for the timely intervention of the police.
The police, although fully armed, did not take part in the exchange because of the difficulty in identifying the members of the two groups. The attire they wore made it extremely difficult for them to be identified.