Police foil another bank robbery in Accra

The police have foiled robbery at the Okpoi Gonno branch of the Access Bank, by six masked armed men, in Accra, last Sunday dawn.

This follows an earlier robbery a month ago, at the same bank, at the Lashibi branch, where unspecified amount of cash was robbed from the bank’s vault by six suspected armed men.

Two pump action guns and 100 rounds of AK ammunition were retrieved by the police and five people arrested.

The robbers, who went to the Okpoi Gonno branch unable to steal from the bank caused damage to Close Circuit Television Cameras (CCTVs), Automated Teller Machine(ATM), vault and alarm systems at the bank.