{"id":55444,"date":"2014-10-12T05:32:31","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T05:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=55444"},"modified":"2014-10-12T12:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T12:37:57","slug":"soldier-butchered-to-death-another-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=55444","title":{"rendered":"Soldier butchered to death, another in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two army officers have been butchered by unknown assailants on the beach road in Accra, leaving one soldier dead and the other in a critical condition on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to military\u00a0said: &#8220;About 4:30am this morning, the two soldiers were attacked while on their regular morning jogging on the beach road.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;I8HJD01OdWnwX2Bc0A4iMgkKbzOa45Jo&#8221;]The assailants snatched their phones, and cut them with machetes.<\/p>\n<p>Reports say the soldiers were dumped at the entrance of the Military Academy training school.<\/p>\n<p>The two soldiers were rushed to the 37 military hospital but one of them had already died while the other is in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>This is second attack on military officers this month after two unidentified gunmen, Thursday afternoon opened fire on a military post at Alavanyo in the Volta region injuring a military officer in the process.<br id=\"0.5623286277987063\" \/><br id=\"0.20548261585645378\" \/>According to the Crime Officer of the Alavanyo Police Command, ASP Edward Otumi, the wounded soldier, Lance Corporal Bombardier, William Derfo, is a member of a team of security personnel on peacekeeping mission in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two army officers have been butchered by unknown assailants on the beach road in Accra, leaving one soldier dead and the other in a critical condition on Saturday. Sources close to military\u00a0said: &#8220;About 4:30am this morning, the two soldiers were attacked while on their regular morning jogging on the beach road.&#8221; [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;I8HJD01OdWnwX2Bc0A4iMgkKbzOa45Jo&#8221;]The assailants snatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3477,"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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-55444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55444","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=55444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}