{"id":181035,"date":"2019-06-07T06:36:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T06:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/ghana-police-investigate-kidnapping-of-2-canadian-women.html"},"modified":"2019-06-07T06:36:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T06:36:50","slug":"ghana-police-investigate-kidnapping-of-2-canadian-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/ghana-police-investigate-kidnapping-of-2-canadian-women.html","title":{"rendered":"Ghana police investigate kidnapping of 2 Canadian women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span readability=\"24\"><\/p>\n<p>Police in Ghana say they&#8217;re\u00a0investigating the kidnapping of two Canadian women in Kumasi, a major city in central Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The women, aged 19 and 20, were taken at the Kumasi Royal Golf Club on Tuesday\u00a0at 8:25 p.m. local time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GhPoliceService\/status\/1136648990949367808\">a news release<\/a> the Ghana Police Service issued through their Twitter account\u00a0Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not name the women, but said they&#8217;re\u00a0volunteers with a non-governmental organization\u00a0called Youth Challenge International.<\/p>\n<p>The Ashanti Regional Police Command is investigating the incident. Security agencies are working to rescue the women and arrest the perpetrators, the news release says.<\/p>\n<p>Police in Ghana\u00a0are asking the public to come forward with any information they have about the kidnapping.<\/p>\n<h2>Global Affairs confirms report<\/h2>\n<p>Global Affairs Canada has confirmed the kidnapping reports,\u00a0but did not confirm specifics, including the number of people abducted,\u00a0citing security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian officials are working with local authorities\u00a0and are in touch with the families of the people\u00a0who were\u00a0abducted, Global Affairs said.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the second kidnapping in the area in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In April, an Indian national was abducted at gunpoint and held for ransom. He was later rescued in a police raid.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been adamant that his government will not facilitate payments to such groups, while his predecessor, Stephen Harper, publicly denied paying any ransoms.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/world\/ghana-police-investigate-kidnapping-of-2-canadian-women-1.5164413?cmp=rss<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Ghana say they&#8217;re\u00a0investigating the kidnapping of two Canadian women in Kumasi, a major city in central Ghana. The women, aged 19 and 20, were taken at the Kumasi Royal Golf Club on Tuesday\u00a0at 8:25 p.m. local time, according to a news release the Ghana Police Service issued through their Twitter account\u00a0Thursday. Police did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-181035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}