{"id":11807,"date":"2014-04-08T20:27:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11807"},"modified":"2014-04-08T20:27:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T20:27:18","slug":"police-suspects-poisoning-for-death-of-family-of-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11807","title":{"rendered":"Police suspects poisoning for death of family of seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/poison2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11812\" alt=\"poison2\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/poison2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/poison2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/poison2-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>The Volta Regional Police Command says it suspects poisoning as being the cause of the death of the family of seven in a village called Wudukpo in the region.<\/p>\n<p>An entire seven-member family of Fulani herdsmen was found dead in their home on Monday together with their household animals.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Tuesday, the regional commander, ACP Peter King mentioned that during investigations, they found a \u201cliquid in a rubber container in the room that looked oily so we have taken a sample for testing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, poisoning is the \u201conly assumption we can make until anything is proven otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ACP King dismissed claims that the deaths could have been a result of a misunderstanding between indigenes of the village and the Fulani herdsmen saying, \u201cwe don\u2019t have any reason to suspect that now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He however disclosed that the head of the family \u201cwent to court and won a judgment against a certain man so we are looking towards that angle to see anything can come out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their bodies have since been conveyed to Accra for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Volta Regional Police Command says it suspects poisoning as being the cause of the death of the family of seven in a village called Wudukpo in the region. An entire seven-member family of Fulani herdsmen was found dead in their home on Monday together with their household animals. Speaking on Eyewitness News on Tuesday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-11807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}