The Chief Executive Officer of Gilat Chemists Limited, Aaron Ohene Agyei has been shot by suspected armed robbers who robbed his pharmacy in the Ashanti Regional capital, Kumasi.
Mr. Agyei managed to drive about four miles while bleeding, to receive emergency care at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
The robbers according to the report after storming Mr Agyei’s pharmacy at Agric-Kromoase in Kumasi, sighted the victim in his car close to the shop trying to escape from the scene. A gunman shot the pharmacist and went ahead to deflate his tyres with another shot, the report added.
They (robbers) made away with some cash and mobile phones in the latest of attacks on pharmacies in some parts of the country.
The robbery incident in Kumasi comes at the back of recent attacks launched against pharmacies in parts of the national capital, Accra.
Meanwhile, the police are yet to make an official statement on the Kumasi incident.
