Three persons have been killed in ethnic clashes in northern Ghana with several others reported to have sustained injuries in clashes over a land, according to local reports.
Starr FM in Accra reported that the intense fighting over land started on Saturday dawn between the Konkomba and Chekosi ethnic groups who live in the Chereponi district of the country’s Northern Region.
Local media reported that the land dispute was resolved last month in favour of the chekosis but the clashes were renewed after a chekosi man was butchered while working on the disputed land which both ethnic parties in the area have laid claim to.
A local chief was quoted as saying that “somebody sent a tractor to farm his own field, then the Konkombas attacked him there and butchered him and this morning tension came there and they started shooting and police went there and they chase them away, so they have killed three people now”.
The Konkombas were said to have raided the houses of the Chekosis with guns, spears and sharpened sticks and set them on fire whiles amidst sporadic shooting, according to Starr FM reports.
Police and soldiers have now been deployed to the community where the clashes took place in order to restore order and prevent further casualties.
Similar clashes in the best have led to the death of several with hundreds of people being displaced.
Source: Africafeeds.com
