Nine people have been killed leaving several injured in an ambush planned by unknown assailants in northern Ghana on Thursday morning, September 21, according to reports by Zubeiru Abdulai, the head of the local district of Pusiga.
The attack had occurred close to the border with Burkina Faso, where Islamist militants are waging an uprising.
Militant conflicts in Ghana is few and far between, but its neighbours Togo and Ivory Coast have seen militants transverse their northern borders to undertake sporadic attacks.
The attackers had shot into two vehicles conveying traders on their way to the market town of Cinkasse, according to Abdulai, who added that the injured were currently being treated at the Bawku government hospital. Majority of the victims had been females.
As at the time of filing this report, police operatives had yet to comment on this incident.
