A 10-day-old baby girl was left to die in the early hours of Sunday after suspected highway robbers held the ambulance conveying her from Tumu to Wa in the Upper West Region hostage for nearly two hours.
The baby was being transferred to the regional hospital in Wa following some complications at birth at the Virtue Clinic at Tumu.
The ambulance took off just after midnight on Saturday, but armed robbers reportedly attacked the vehicle as it headed from Tumu towards Han in the Sissala East District on its way to the regional hospital in Wa.
The robbers, said to be four in number, kept the new mother, her baby and two others for almost two hours as they harassed them and collected cell phones, cash and some other personal effects.
Police investigations
According to the Public Relations Officer of the Upper West Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Joy Afagbedzi, the baby died before the ambulance finally made the nearly three-hour journey (minus the two hours with the robbers) from Tumu to Wa.
He said the police had started investigations and that information on the incident was still scanty.
Staff of the National Ambulance Service in Wa said the case had since been reported to the police as they shied away from official comments and media attention.
Both the mother of the deceased child and the ambulance driver are said to have been treated and discharged from the regional hospital.
Source: Daily Graphic
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I have always maintained that armed robbers don't deserve to live. Kill them onsite or when able to capture them, retrieve necessary and leading info and just annihilate them. They hardly ever get reformed in custody, instead they contaminate other inmates. So-called Human rights activists and Amnesty groups can go hell.
fada dickson, and kwadwo asante if u get no news dont be repeating to us cos this was posted yester so why today too or is it by false to get plenty news