Two suspected armed robbers were shot dead after a fierce gun battle with the police on the Graphic Road on Sunday night. The identities of the deceased are yet to be known, but a third suspect managed to escape arrest. Seven others were arrested in separate operations in parts of the Greater Accra Region. They are Micheal Boateng, a trader, aged 28, and Kojo Enock, 25, who are alleged to be notorious car snatchers, who managed to snatch eight vehicles from their owners within one month. The rest used motorbikes to snatch valuables like ladies’ bags and computers from pedestrians and they are Aziz Musah, 21, Baba Sally, 23, Stephen Gletsu, 22; all unemployed, Kwesi Badu, 31, driver, and Mohamed Mubarak, 24, a scrap dealer. Briefing the press in Accra on Monday, the Accra Regional Police Commander, DCOP Rose Bio Atinga, said a police patrol team had information that armed robbers had attacked two victims around the Obetsebi Lamptey Circle on the Graphic Road, so they quickly headed there. She said on reaching the scene, the robbers engaged the police in a fierce gun battle and in the process two of the robbers were killed, but their accomplice managed to escape and the police retrieved two pistols, two empty cartridges, two sharp machetes and a handbag containing five mobile phones and a number of wrist watches. In the other robbery cases involving the car snatchers, the Police Commander said the region through its intelligence network, had information that two robbers; Michael Boateng and Kojo Enoch had been snatching vehicles in some parts of the metropolis. DCOP Bio Atinga said following this information, a team of plain-clothes men were detailed to monitor the movement of the two and Boateng was arrested at STC station on the Accra-Mallam road after which he led the police to Akim Oda to arrest his accomplice, Enoch, and upon interrogation, the two admitted snatching eight vehicles within the month of June, 2011. According to her, Boateng and Enock led the police to retrieve four of the vehicles from buyers, but the rest were yet to be retrieved. She gave the registration numbers of the four recovered ones as a Kia Rio taxi with registration number AS 2019-11, another Kia Rio with registration number GE 5098-11, a Nissan Almera taxi and a Kia Sephia taxi; both without registration number plates. She said on August 14, 2011, the police had information that two young men, Kwesi and Mohammed, were offering for sale a stolen Rover taxi with registration number GT 8827 Z at Ashaiman and plain-clothes policemen were quickly dispatched to Ashaiman and they feigned interest in the cab. After bargaining with the robbers, it was agreed that they pay GH¢1,000 for the vehicle and the two robbers informed them that the vehicle had been parked behind a house at Sege in the Dangbe East District. They also gave the ignition keys and the car tape to the policemen with the agreement that they would meet at the same spot at Ashaiman to effect payment for the vehicle. The policemen proceeded to Sege and recovered the vehicle and the next day they were the first to arrive at the spot to effect the payment and as soon as the robbers arrived, they were whisked into a car and taken to the police station. It was at the police station that they realised they had been dealing with policemen all that while. The commander said investigations revealed that the two were beneficiaries of the Justice for all Programmes and were released two months ago from the Nsawam Prisons, where they had been on remand for an armed robbery case. For his part, the Deputy Regional Police Commander, ACOP Christian Tetteh Yohonu, said for some time now there had been a series of attacks on inhabitants of Giga, near Kwashieman in Accra, by riders of unregistered motorbikes and on August 20, 2011, information reached the police that three suspects had blocked the Giga Junction road and were robbing some members of the public of their valuables. He said based on that information a team of police personnel were quickly dispatched from Odorkor to the area and the three suspects, Aziz, Baba and Stephen, were arrested and their two sharpened machetes and two unregistered motorbikes taken away with them. ACOP Yohonu said the Tesano Police on Friday, August 19, 2011, also arrested two Nigerians, Ejidike Afedi, 39, and Felix Seun, 26, and at the ABC bus terminal at Avenor for possessing 10 parcels of compressed substances suspected to be Indian hemp.