One person has reportedly died after police in Odumase-Krobo fired gun shots in a bid to disperse rioting youth of the area.
Energynewsafrica.com also understands that four police personnel have been seriously injured, while a12-year-old girl had also been hit by a bullet in the knee.
Twenty of the irate youth have reportedly been arrested and currently lying on the floor at the Manya Krobo Municipal Assembly.
Reports reaching this portal indicate that the MCE for the area attempted to calm the angry residents, but they massed up to attack him but police quickly responded by firing gun shots in a bid to disperse them.
Staff of PDS have since, last week, been embarking on what it described as intensive revenue mobilisation to retrieve monies owed them by residents of manya Krobo area.
According to officials of PDS, residents of Krobo area have refused to pay for electricity bills since 2017.
However, some residents of the area refused to allow PDS staff from collecting electricity bills or disconnecting residents from the national grid.
Speaking on Accra-based Citi FM, Eastern Regional Police PRO, DSP Ebenezer Tetteh, confirmed reports of one person dying in the process of the riot.
He added that the irate youth pelted the police with stones and other weapons.
The deceased is yet to be identified
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