Police in the Ashanti Region have retrieved two more AK-47 assault rifles and 176 live cartridges and ammunitions from a forest at Trede, near Kumasi.
They are believed to be part of the weapons being kept in the house at Alabar where the Police raided on Monday. No arrest has been made.
The swoop was held under the ongoing Christmas and New year security operation code named, ‘Father Christmas.’
The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Kofi Boakye, told reporters at a press briefing here yesterday, that the guns and the ammunitions were found hidden in the forest at Trede on Tuesday.
He disclosed that the owners of the weapons allegedly attempted to burn them when the police got to the scene in the evening.
Explaining, DCOP Kofi Boakye, said the Police received information that some armed robbers were keeping weapons in a bush in the area.
The police then laid ambush around the area on Tuesday morning, thinking that the armed robbers would show up so they could arrest them, but nobody turned up.
“My men went back and a few minutes later, they saw a fire in a part of the forest.
There were also explosions in the cause of the fire, so they ran to the area and found two AK-47 rifles and 176 ammunitions of the rifles, he stated.
This is the second time this week that the Police in Kumasi, have retrieved guns and ammunitions.
The police, acting on a tip-off, arrested Moro Sata, a Burkina Faso national, on Monday in swoop at Alabar.
The stoutly built grey haired and bearded man is still in police custody awaiting prosecution.
Police retrieved 10 AK 47 raffles, 10 G3 guns, 45 sidearm, 9 millimeter AK-47 tracer ammunition, 45 auto G3 ammunitions, 4 firing pins, a clocking handing, one AAA ammunition, five 12.7 millimeter ammunition and a machine gun.
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