{"id":143917,"date":"2024-01-26T15:19:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/26\/policeman-dies-in-galamsey-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T15:19:18","slug":"policeman-dies-in-galamsey-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/26\/policeman-dies-in-galamsey-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Policeman Dies In Galamsey Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>The deceased, Constable Prince Amoah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A Police Constable, identified as Prince Amoah, met his untimely death last Tuesday when the police vehicle he was onboard with other policemen fell into a galamsey pit during an alleged anti-galamsey operation.<\/p>\n<p>The unfortunate incident happened at Enchi-Kwawu in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a team of police personnel in the area including the deceased were on their usual patrol at Omanpe in the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>On their way back, the team purportedly decided to embark on an operation to apprehend alleged illegal miners or galamseyers\u00a0operating at Kwawu.<\/p>\n<p>The reports indicated that while returning from the galamsey sites, the team had to drive on a wooden bridge which has been constructed\u00a0on the pit created by the galamseyers.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, while the police personnel were driving on the wooden bridge, it collapsed and their vehicle fell into the pit, and Constable Prince Amoah allegedly died on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Four other policemen in the vehicle who got injured\u00a0were sent to Samreboi Government Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The body of the deceased has also been deposited at the same hospital mortuary for preservation and autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the residents asserted that the police regularly visit the area to allegedly extort money from the illegal miners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenior police officers in this area are aware of the situation, but they seem to be doing nothing about it because they also benefit from it,\u201d they alleged.<\/p>\n<p>The residents revealed that it was the\u00a0second time an Enchi Police District vehicle has fallen into a pit at a galamsey site in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-424402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wooden-bridge-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"606\"  \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The wooden bridge<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-424403\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/police-car-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"662\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Police vehicle in the galamsey pit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>From Emmanuel Opoku, Takoradi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The deceased, Constable Prince Amoah \u00a0 A Police Constable, identified as Prince Amoah, met his untimely death last Tuesday when the police vehicle he was onboard with other policemen fell into a galamsey pit during an alleged anti-galamsey operation. The unfortunate incident happened at Enchi-Kwawu in the Aowin Municipality of the Western North Region. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Policeman Dies In Galamsey Operation - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/26\/policeman-dies-in-galamsey-operation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Policeman Dies In Galamsey Operation - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The deceased, Constable Prince Amoah \u00a0 A Police Constable, identified as Prince Amoah, met his untimely death last Tuesday when the police vehicle he was onboard with other policemen fell into a galamsey pit during an alleged anti-galamsey operation. 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