Mampong in the Ashanti Region has been thrown in state of mourning after the police shot a teacher and his brother dead after mistaking them for armed robbers.
The teacher was based at the Mampong Midwifery Training School.
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PrimeNews.com.gh understands that the police were responding to a distress call when the saw the teacher and his brother riding a motorbike. Thinking that they were armed robbers who were fleeing a robbery scene, the police shot and killed both of them.
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The bodies of the deceased have been deposited at the mortuary.