BATTLE WITH POLICE
troublesome gold coast VILLAGERS ACCRA (Gold Coast), Rec. 7.30 p.m. Jan. 30. Four persons were killed and nine wounded yesterday in a gun battle between the police and villagers at Jakobu, a few miles south of Kumasi. The village, which is in the Bekwai division of Ashanti, has been a trouble centre for some time over a dispute between the villagers and the Bekwai chief. The police are attempting to arrest the trouble makers.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27303, 1 February 1950, Page 5
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