{"id":336230,"date":"2017-07-13T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336230"},"modified":"2017-07-13T14:44:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T14:44:40","slug":"lapaz-armed-men-shoot-two-police-officers-steal-car-in-broad-daylight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336230","title":{"rendered":"Lapaz: Armed men shoot two police officers, steal car in broad daylight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Service is on a manhunt for two armed men who shot two officers in broad daylight at Lapaz in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The criminals were said to be on a robbery mission in the area but shot the policemen \u00a0to prevent the officers from thwarting their operation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong> gathered that the incident occurred at about 1 pm around a popular restaurant in the area, Las Palmas.<\/p>\n<p>Some eyewitnesses said the robbers were on a motorbike when they carried out the shooting and subsequently stole a vehicle from a motorist before speeding off towards Kasoa.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Service is yet to formally react to the development. The condition of the shot officers remains unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Barely a month ago, a\u00a0Policeman believed to be in his 30s was <a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/13\/policeman-shot-dead-near-michel-camp\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>shot dead<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by two armed men. The officer, Michael Kporye, was shot in the face and in the chest at Tulaku near Michel Camp, in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p>Suspected armed robbers have shot and wounded a Police officer at Akwansrem in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks later, Lance Corporal Kwaku Mensah, who was stationed at Anwiankwanta in the Bekwai Municipality, sustained several gunshot wounds when<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/21\/police-officer-shot-by-suspected-robbers-in-ashanti-region\/\"><strong> gunmen attacked<\/strong><\/a><\/span> a vehicle he was traveling on.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle was attacked by gun-wielding robbers\u00a0who attacked the vehicle at about 10 pm.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police Service is on a manhunt for two armed men who shot two officers in broad daylight at Lapaz in Accra. The criminals were said to be on a robbery mission in the area but shot the policemen \u00a0to prevent the officers from thwarting their operation. Citi News gathered that the incident occurred at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[3712,3,6535],"class_list":["post-336230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-armed-robbers","tag-ghana-news","tag-lapaz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336230","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=336230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}