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Public Affairs Director of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Cephas Arthur has disclosed that the two police officers who were shot and killed Monday at Winneba were �accidentally� shot by a police patrol team. This is contrary to earlier reports that the two; Lance Corporals Emmanuel Tetteh, 36 and Francis Appiah, 28 were shot by suspected armed robbers. According to reports, Appiah had sustained machete wounds following a robbery incident and Tetteh, who had just closed from duty, took a friend�s car to transport Appiah to a nearby hospital and on their way, they were shot and killed. Speaking in an interview on Citi Eyewitness news, Tuesday, DSP Cephas Arthur explained that the police received a distress call of an armed robbery incident that was going on at Gomoa Pomadze near Winneba and when the police patrol team got to the scene they saw a private vehicle being driven away �and thought they were the armed robbers�. ��A police officer who had sustained injuries (from the armed robbers), and was being rushed to the hospital by another police officer, were mistaken to be criminals and were inadvertently shot by the police, resulting in the death of the police officers� the police officers were not wearing their uniforms and so were not identified by the patrol team and that explains why they were shot...� he said.