{"id":72410,"date":"2014-12-08T14:01:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=72410"},"modified":"2014-12-08T14:47:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T14:47:29","slug":"melcom-security-man-smashed-cutter-eyewitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=72410","title":{"rendered":"Melcom security man was smashed with cutter \u2013 Eyewitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An eyewitness has told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/08\/robbers-kill-melcom-security-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Melcom security man who was killed<\/strong><\/a><\/span> on Monday dawn was hit on the head with a cutter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspected robbers who broke into the Madina Melcom branch killed the security man on duty after he attempted to fend them off from breaking into the shop.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;0ZoKdsNeTtRbS3y8hJujYTUZyrE8kyD7&#8243;]The Eyewitness said he was standing in front of his house when the incident happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He narrated that \u201caround 12:30 to 1am, it was lights out by then so I was standing in front of my gate, my house was just behind the Melcom so I just saw there were two guys standing on our lane. What we just heard was siren of the shop sounding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said he quickly went to his window to get a glimpse of what was happening adding that \u201cI saw they smashed the security man with a cutter, the one they use to smash the bugler proof. So he shouted and he was shaking. It was very serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI have a friend, the manager, who is also living around the Melcom, so I asked him what\u2019s wrong this morning and he told me the security man is dead, they smashed his head with a cutter and the cutter is even by the door,&#8221; he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said his friend &#8220;also told me by then they heard the noise and they were calling policemen and they never responded. He said they called several times 991 and also they called and a lady picked up and she hanged up on them and they called later on and she hanged up again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the Accra Police Command, ASP Afia Tenge has told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that\u00a0 they are investigating the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe will be doing our preliminary investigations to ascertain actually what happened and then we can take it from there,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An eyewitness has told Citi News that the Melcom security man who was killed on Monday dawn was hit on the head with a cutter. Suspected robbers who broke into the Madina Melcom branch killed the security man on duty after he attempted to fend them off from breaking into the shop. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;0ZoKdsNeTtRbS3y8hJujYTUZyrE8kyD7&#8243;]The Eyewitness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":72470,"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-72410","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\/72410","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}