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Indiscriminate gun-shots and sporadic firing of tear-gas characterized the election of Executives to spearhead the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern Region as irate youth of the party engage the security agencies in an unnecessary show of machismo at the Radach Memorial Centre in Tamale, venue of the event. Three people sustained various injuries including the Tamale Police Commander, ASP Caesar Abanga, who was said to have required urgent medical care. The nature of the injuries is yet to be ascertained. According to Kwabena Ntow, FillaFm�s Reporter and PEACEFM�s Correspondent in the Northern Region, the fracas began when some members of the NPP who are not delegates, attempted to gate-crash the function, but were fiercely resisted by the police. The police insist they had expressed orders to grant access to only delegates who had the mandate to exercise their franchise and not just any NPP activist. Incensed by the refusal of the police to deny them access, the youth amassed and armed themselves with cutlasses and other deadly weapons ostensibly to force their way through. Some even pelted the security agencies with stones leading to ASP Abanga sustaining injuries. When numerous appeals to the youth by the police went unheeded, the police then resorted to the firing of warning-shots and tear-gas to disperse the crowd. More details coming up�.