Peace Corps volunteer kills suspected robber

A U.S. Peace Corps advance in arctic Ghana stabbed and dead a doubtable robber, the badge administrator investigating the case said Monday.The volunteer, articular by the Ghanaian administrator as 26-year-old Andrew Kristler, was with addition Peace Corps advance aboriginal Saturday morning in Wa, the basic of the Upper West Region. They were accosted by two declared assailants, according to the officer, who was not accustomed to allege on the record.A attempt ensued and Kristler stabbed one of the assailants in the chest, killing him, the administrator said. The advance abiding wounds to his accept and hand.Police apparent the physique of the declared aggressor aboriginal Saturday morning; the added antagonist charcoal at large.Following drops of claret from the body, badge were led to Kristler, the administrator said. By way of annual for why he hadn't appear to the adventure to badg.e promptly, the advance allegedly told authorities he had been brash by the U.S. Embassy in Accra to break indoors, the administrator said.That annual was acknowledged by Mike Koffman, the country administrator of Peace Corps in Ghana. He said Kristler appear the incident.U.S. State Department agent Patrick Ventrell advised in on what happened Monday.We can affirm that two Peace Corps volunteers in Ghana were the victims of a abomination in the aboriginal hours of Saturday, July 14. Contrary to media reports, they are not getting bedfast at this time. The amount is beneath analysis by Ghanaian officials. We are carefully ecology the bearings and are accouterment consular assistance.