{"id":215261,"date":"2016-05-18T18:37:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T18:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215261"},"modified":"2016-05-18T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T18:37:03","slug":"police-hunt-for-wounded-suspect-in-foiled-bank-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215261","title":{"rendered":"Police hunt for wounded suspect in foiled bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has said it is on the lookout for the robber who escaped after they <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/05\/17\/police-foil-robbery-at-first-atlantic-bank-robber-shot\/\">foiled a robbery<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0attack at\u00a0the First Atlantic Bank branch at Ridge in Accra on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect on the run is reported to have been wounded after exchanging shots with the police, when\u00a0he and his accomplice tried to rob two customers of\u00a0the bank.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;A38bMj5gHGd7JhElaEO6bhO7OHeE3eji&#8221;]The two customers had just withdrawn bulk money from the First Atlantic Bank branch and were about to set off on a motorbike when they were attacked.<\/p>\n<p>One of the customers, who was the pillion rider on\u00a0the motorbike, sustained gunshot wounds to his leg during the robbery attempt and is receiving treatment at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>One of the robbers, who\u00a0was wounded in\u00a0the shootout, has been identified as 21 year-old Ibrahim Shaibu after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The police also revealed they confiscated a handgun and one round of live ammunition from the suspect, Ibrahim Shaibu.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_215262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215262\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-215262\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/278e93ae-92bb-4cb6-9c4c-787ecafd1580.jpg\" alt=\"Some items recovered from one suspect\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-215262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some items recovered from one suspect<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They further urged the public and health service providers\u00a0to be on the lookout for any individual with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has said it is on the lookout for the robber who escaped after they foiled a robbery\u00a0attack at\u00a0the First Atlantic Bank branch at Ridge in Accra on Tuesday evening. The suspect on the run is reported to have been wounded after exchanging shots with the police, when\u00a0he and his accomplice tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":215263,"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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215261","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}