{"id":391812,"date":"2018-01-15T17:33:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391812"},"modified":"2018-01-15T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T17:35:10","slug":"3-arrested-with-explosives-at-odorkor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391812","title":{"rendered":"3 arrested with explosives at Odorkor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Odorkor Divisional Police Command in the Greater Accra Region, has\u00a0arrested three persons after intercepting some explosives following a tip-off.<\/p>\n<p>At least, seven grenades were retrieved by the police during the arrest, according to some pictures sighted by<strong> Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Police is investigating the matter in collaboration with the relevant agencies, and therefore assures the public to remain calm. Police is continuously working to ensure public safety,&#8221; a statement from the Police administration said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391816\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-1.jpg 607w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-1-300x182.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 591px) 100vw, 591px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-391818\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"603\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-3.jpg 521w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/grenade-arrests-3-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the arrested persons is suspected to\u00a0be a land guard and a robber, while the other two are believed to be the suppliers of the explosives and other arms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find<\/strong><strong>\u00a0the full statement below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POLICE INTERCEPTS EXPLOSIVES AT ACCRA<\/p>\n<p>Police have intercepted some objects believed to be explosives of varied species at Odorkor in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The explosives were intercepted based on Police intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Three persons (names withheld) have also been arrested in connection with the intercepted explosives and are in Police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Police is investigating the matter in coordination with the relevant agencies and therefore assures the public to remain calm. Police is continuously working to ensure public safety.<\/p>\n<p>Anybody with information related to the case under investigation is urged to promptly call 191 (on all networks) or 18555 (on Vodafone and MTN).<\/p>\n<p>SGD.<\/p>\n<p>DIRECTOR-GENERAL\/PUBLIC AFFAIRS<\/p>\n<p>[DAVID EKLU]<\/p>\n<p>ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF POLICE<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Odorkor Divisional Police Command in the Greater Accra Region, has\u00a0arrested three persons after intercepting some explosives following a tip-off. At least, seven grenades were retrieved by the police during the arrest, according to some pictures sighted by Citi News. &#8220;The Police is investigating the matter in collaboration with the relevant agencies, and therefore assures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":391817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[16157,16078,519],"class_list":["post-391812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-explosives","tag-odorkor","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391812","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=391812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}