A police officer has been shot dead by suspected armed robbers in the Northern Region.
Information gathered indicates that on Tuesday July 30, the deceased, a female officer, was on duty at the Kumbungu Road checkpoint near Star Oil Filing Station, when an oncoming saloon car was signaled to stop upon approaching the barrier.
But the occupants of the saloon car who were said to be four in number, and dressed in military camouflage with face masks, shot at the deceased, killing her instantly.
A police report said another officer who was on duty and decided to take cover following the shooting, had her weapon and that of the deceased, taken away by the robbers.
A third officer who was also at the barrier, shot at the robbers, but they managed to escape with the two weapons.
The body of the deceased has since been deposited at the Tamale Teaching Hospital mortuary.
*Article was amended to show the killing took place in Tamale not Kumbungu*