A suspected land guard has shot a 38-year-old farmer, Kwadwo Kintoh, at a galamsey site at Sefwi Nambro in the Bibiani-Anhwiaso-Bekwai Municipality of the Western North Region.
Reports indicate that the incident occurred during the operation of an excavator to construct a path through the victim's farm to the galamsey site According to the source, the farmer refused to sell his land to the illegal miners due to a low compensation package.
This degenerated into a serious argument between the suspect and the farmer in the bush.
The suspect, who at the time of the argument had a pistol on him, pulled it out and gave a warning shot with intention of intimidating the farmer, but accidentally hit the armpit of the farmer.
