'No More Than 27 Killed'

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 13

'No More Than 27 Killed'

(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) ACCRA, March 8. The new Government of Ghana yesterday reported it has protested to the Organisation of African Unity against the “gross interference” by Guinea in internal Ghanaian affairs. United Press International said. It also announced that no more than 27 persons were killed in the coup that toppled Dr. Kwame Nkrumah from power while he was in China.

Brigadier A. K. Ocran, the Army second-in-com-mand, said seven soldiers died in the attack on Dr. Nkrumah’s fortified Flagstaff House. He said between 10 and 20 of the Russian-trained security guards defending the residence were also killed. Brigadier Ocran said no Russians were trapped in the last-ditch stand at Flagstaff House and he knew nothing about reported Russian casualties. “We heard there were

Russians at Flagstaff House, but we never saw them,” he said. Ghana’s protest Note was sent to the O.A.U. secretary-general, Mr Diallo Telli. in the wake of a broadcast by Dr. Nkrumah over Radio Guinea on the eve of Ghana's ninth anniversary of independence. Brigadier Ocran accompanied the head of the new military regime, Lieutenant-General Joseph Ankrah, on a tour of Army units yesterday. a