A police operation to clamp down on activities of illegal miners who have pitched camp in the Offin Shelter Belt Forest Reserve at Anwiafutu near Nyinahin, in the Ashanti region, turned violent as four people sustained varied degrees of injury.

Joynews' Assisting Editor, Ohemeng Tawiah, embedded in the team, was among those injured by a mob of illegal miners.

He was following up on an earlier story he did on the illegal mining operations of Clean Jobs Resources Limited.

He sustained head and chest injuries, twisted fingers, and multiple cuts on his body after surviving a machete attack, in what appears to be an attempt to cut off his right leg.