There was pandemonium at the Law Court Complex in Accra when a prison officer inadvertently fired his weapon in a courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources tell Joy News, the accidental discharge has left the officer wounded in the leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The presiding judge at Criminal Court 5, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo immediately suspended proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shooting incident sent those in the courtroom running helter-skelter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An eyewitness said the officer has been rushed to the Judicial Service Clinic for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shooting incident temporarily brought the trial of the Canadian girls\u2019 kidnappers to a stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The injured officer [name withheld] is one of the officers accompanying the four suspects standing trial for unlawful kidnapping of the foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the court manager, the Ministry Police Station has been contacted over the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There was pandemonium at the Law Court Complex in Accra when a prison officer inadvertently fired his weapon in a courtroom.<\/p>\n
Sources tell Joy News, the accidental discharge has left the officer wounded in the leg.<\/p>\n
The presiding judge at Criminal Court 5, Justice Lydia Osei Marfo immediately suspended proceedings.<\/p>\n
The shooting incident sent those in the courtroom running helter-skelter.<\/p>\n
An eyewitness said the officer has been rushed to the Judicial Service Clinic for treatment.<\/p>\n
The shooting incident temporarily brought the trial of the Canadian girls\u2019 kidnappers to a stop.<\/p>\n
The injured officer [name withheld] is one of the officers accompanying the four suspects standing trial for unlawful kidnapping of the foreigners.<\/p>\n
According to the court manager, the Ministry Police Station has been contacted over the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}