{"id":201790,"date":"2016-03-26T09:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=201790"},"modified":"2016-03-26T09:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T09:16:49","slug":"police-officer-gunned-down-by-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=201790","title":{"rendered":"Police officer gunned down by robbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A police officer has been killed by suspected robbers at\u00a0Kalba, in the Sawla Tuna-Kalba District of the Northern Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Police Commander, ASP Francis Numado confirmed this to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kzQ41P07NhCxn3IiGxJqVDmPuLQT7EJv&#8221;]According to ASP Numado, the robbers shot at the police officers because they (the robbers) felt threatened when they saw the officers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhen they saw my men on patrol, they felt threatened and so gunned one of them down. The one who was shot is a corporal, he was patrolling with two constables,\u201d ASP Numado said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added that one of the suspected robbers, believed to be a Fulani has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District is located in the western part of the Northern Region, close to Ghana\u2019s border with Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A police officer has been killed by suspected robbers at\u00a0Kalba, in the Sawla Tuna-Kalba District of the Northern Region. The Sawla-Tuna-Kalba District Police Commander, ASP Francis Numado confirmed this to Citi News. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kzQ41P07NhCxn3IiGxJqVDmPuLQT7EJv&#8221;]According to ASP Numado, the robbers shot at the police officers because they (the robbers) felt threatened when they saw the officers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201790","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}