THE driver of a taxi with registration number WR 125 X, died on admission at the Effia Nkwanta Hospital last Wednesday, after being shot by unidentified people.
The victim has been identified as Kwesi Badu, 25.
According to a resident of the area where the incident occurred, he saw a police vehicle moving from the scene, when he peeped through his window after hearing a gunshot at about 1 a.m.
The taxi ran into a ditch and the victim was said to have been shot at close range with the bullet perforating his ribs and back. One live ammunition and an empty cartridge were left at the spot between the Archbishop Porter Girls Senior High School Junction and the BU-Campus of the Takoradi Polytechnic.
Some students of the Polytechnic, who said they were returning from night studies and heard the victim’s cry for help, managed to rush him to hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
“We rushed him to hospital with his clothes soaked in blood and he vomiting blood,” one of the students said.
“The only thing he told us was that he was dying and that we should send him to hospital. Before we could ask further questions, we realised he was losing breath, and was pronounced dead on arrival,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Western Regional Police Command has launched an investigation into the incident.
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