A Nissan Urvan bus with registration number GT 6479 P was impounded on Thursday dawn by a joint military/police patrol team on the Accra/Kumasi highway carrying 16 live goats and eight sheep.
The driver of the vehicle and an accomplice abandoned the vehicle when they were pursued by the team at Densuso.
Briefing the GNA Police Chief Superintendent Richard Johnson, Kyebi Divisional Commander, said the team on its usual patrol around 0330 hours on Thursday spotted a vehicle coming and signaled it to stop but the driver refused.
The driver and the occupant fled into the bush abandoning the vehicle and when the team searched it the 24 animals were found inside.
He said as at the time of going to press two of the animals had died and that no one had claimed ownership of the vehicle or the animals but investigations were continuing.
A patrol team also arrested Yaw Adu, 27, on the Accra/Kumasi highway during its usual patrols for stealing a KIA Delta taxi cab with registration number GC 4160 Z.
One of the occupants of the taxi, Kingsley Tawiah, is on the run.
Sergeant Frank Domi said the team stopped the car and ordered the two occupants to park well and get down.
He said in the process, Tawiah escaped but Yaw Adu was arrested and a further search in the car found a complimentary card bearing the name Kwaku Adu.
Sergeant Domi said the team called the number only to be told that the said car had just been reported snatched by two persons from the driver at a gunpoint.