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Police avert deadly mob justice in Assin North
He said the latest incident follows previous cases of mob violence, including one in which a suspect was allegedly killed and the crowd attempted to set the body ablaze.
The incident occurred at Assin Yaw Attah on Thursday when the suspect, believed to be in his early 20s, allegedly trespassed onto a cocoa farm and attempted to attack a 19-year-old farmer, identified only as Baba, with a stick.
Police in the Assin North District of the Central Region have rescued a suspected attacker from an angry mob after residents allegedly subjected him to severe beatings over an attempted assault on a cocoa farmer.
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