Cunu­pia res­i­dents were full of praise for the po­lice hours af­ter they awoke to the sound of gun­fire yes­ter­day morn­ing, as the usu­al­ly qui­et agri­cul­tur­al com­mu­ni­ty was the scene of a chase and shootout be­tween ban­dits and po­lice of­fi­cers, which led to the deaths of four sus­pects and the ar­rest of two oth­ers. The in­ci­dent stemmed from a home in­va­sion.

Ac­cord­ing to a TTPS me­dia re­lease, the in­ci­dent be­gan around 3.30 am when a 70-year-old farmer was at­tacked at his Cunu­pia home by eight masked ban­dits, one of whom had a gun.

The man was tied up and had his cell­phone stolen along with $1,120.