{"id":43249,"date":"2023-09-21T16:22:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T16:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=43249"},"modified":"2023-09-21T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T13:18:57","slug":"sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses","title":{"rendered":"Sami Karantaba Police Post building collapses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Police Post of Karantaba Wolof in Sami District of the Central River Region north has collapsed following a heavy downpour in the area.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to this medium a source (name withheld) said: \u201cFinally the Karantaba Police Station has collapsed last night following a heavy rainfall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the source further said no causality was registered in the incident. \u201cSo, fortunately no person has been injured because there were no detainees in the post,\u201d the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Sami is a district of over sixty (60) villages and several villages are on the borderline. But it has no Police Station. The residents depend only on the Karantaba Police Post to get security and report criminal cases.<\/p>\n<p>However, the source further said now police officers at the Karantaba Police Post have nowhere to detain suspects, adding they have to transfer suspects to the Kuntaur Police Station in the Niani District or Bansang Police Station in the Upper Fulladu District, Central River Region south for detention.<\/p>\n<p>Our source added that the Sami Police Post has been in poor condition since 2017; despite that, suspects have been detained in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf people were detained in the police post when it was collapsing, then it would have been a disaster,\u201d the source argued.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, our CRR north source called on the Gambia government through the Ministry of Interior to urgently intervene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. The Police Post of Karantaba Wolof in Sami District of the Central River Region north has collapsed following a heavy downpour in the area. Speaking to this medium a source (name withheld) said: \u201cFinally the Karantaba Police Station has collapsed last night following a heavy rainfall.\u201d However, the source further said no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43248,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-43249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-gambia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sami Karantaba Police Post building collapses - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Police Post of Karantaba Wolof in Sami District of the Central River Region north has collapsed following a heavy ...\" \/>\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.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sami Karantaba Police Post building collapses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Police Post of Karantaba Wolof in Sami District of the Central River Region north has collapsed following a heavy ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-21T16:22:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/09\/sm_1695289509.675367.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Sami Karantaba Police Post building collapses\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-21T16:22:18+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\"},\"wordCount\":241,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2023\/09\/sm_1695289509.675367.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Gambia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/sami-karantaba-police-post-building-collapses\",\"name\":\"Sami Karantaba Police Post building collapses - 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