42-year-old lactating mother named Mariama Dauda was among those killed in a recent ethnic dispute at Bawku in the Upper East Region.
According to reports, the dead was shot on Wednesday morning inside her home in Sabongari.
The overall number of fatalities since Sunday, December 18, 2022, now stands at eight.
In an interview with Adom News, Yakubu Dauda, the deceased woman's husband, said he heard gunshots and ran to find out what had happened.
However, he asserted that the troops had forewarned him not to emerge lest he too be shot to death.
The troops' justification for their actions, according to the upset husband, was that they believed the wife to be armed.
"I heard a gunshot at my doorstep right after my wife opened the door and yelled to see what was going on, but the troops in uniform ordered me not to try to come out should I be shot dead as well.
The distraught husband said, "But when I questioned them why they opened fire inside my house, they replied they assumed my wife was holding a gun and so they shot her dead.
The spouse said that after allegedly performing the horrible murder, the troops scooped up the bullet casings and ran away.
"They left, but soon returned, picked up all the bullets, and drove off. When I returned to the house after the troops had departed, my wife was lying in a pool of blood on the floor
I'm concerned because there weren't any gunfights between groups in the vicinity, and we were in the rooms at the time my wife tragically passed away while going to the bathroom.
The deceased's body has been sent to the mortuary at Quality Medical Center.
Saani Yelkambe, the local assemblyman, claimed to have learned about the report from local residents.
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