Police have managed to restore order in the Suhum township and on the main Suhum - Kumasi road after it was blocked by angry youth of the town.
Joy News Samuel Yirenkyi reported said calm had generally returned to the town and traffic flow was back to normal.
Tension had been high in the Suhum township earlier in the day following the shooting of one of the youth of the town by the police.
The vicitm who was hit by a stray bullet as police fired warning shots to disperse the youth has been transfered to the Koforidua Government Hospital after initially receiving medical attention at the Suhum Government Hospital.
A policeman who was also hit by an object in the scuffle was still on admission at the Suhum Government Hospital as at 6:00pm while hospital authorities said they had treated several civillians for minor injuries.
The police were also reported to have arrested scores of the youth who blocked the road to protest what they said was a security lax in the town that had seen a series of murders in recent times.
The youths engaged in scuffles with tear-gas shooting police personnel who tried to free the roads to ease built up traffic in the town.
The under siege police received reinforcement from the regional capital, Koforidua. The Regional Police Commander assured the residents the police would do its best to unravel the mysterious deaths and appealed for calm.
The town had recorded at least five unexplained murders in recent times, the latest of which was the discovery of the body of a middle aged man on Wednesday morning.
The body was discovered in a plantation of the Suhum Secondary Technical School, the same locality the previous victim, Kwabena Sarfo, also a middle aged man was discovered on Sunday morning.
The latest victim was the fifth person to have been killed under mysterious circumstances in a short while.
Residents of Suhum highly suspected foul play in the death of the victim and according to Samuel Mills, also a resident, the victim seemed to have been murdered earlier and dumped in a stream in the plantation.
He told Joy News at midday that the blood-soaked body had been deposited in a manner that made it difficult to identify it.
The police were already investigating the earlier strange killings.
On Monday, the Inspector General of Police, Patrick Acheampong ordered investigations into the murders and hours later, the investigators ruled out activities of serial killers in the unexplained murders but promised to get to the bottom of the deaths.
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