The Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has paid a visit to the Islamic Senior High School in Kumasi to get first-hand details of an alleged Police attack on some students of the Institution.
This is part of investigations being conducted into the incident by the Police administration.
About 25 students were reported to have been hospitalized after the Police reportedly razed tear gas on the students.
The students were protesting frequent crashes of pedestrians in front of the School.
The angry students converged on the road in numbers, as they called for construction of speed ramps on that section of the road.
Reports indicate there was vehicular and human traffic on that stretch for more than an hour before the Police were called in to clear the road.
Academic work was truncated as a result of the skirmishes.
Parents thronged the school to check on their children.
Security meanwhile has been reinforced within the school and its environs.
A Spokesperson for the Education Ministry, Eric Opoku Mensah, said the Regional Director of Education is following up with the matter to ensure that all students admitted at the hospital are well catered for and safe.
Furthermore, the School would also engage the Ministry and the Urban Roads Directorate to ensure that some markings are done on the road immediately.
The National Ambulance Service has pegged the number of victims admitted to hospital, at 25.
Regional Director of the Service, Summit Duut, says all the victims are responding to treatment. He, however, stressed that they have not treated any traumatic injury like that of gunshot wounds.
According to him, the students rather ”suffered respiratory distress”.
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