{"id":52714,"date":"2024-02-07T18:54:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T18:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?p=52714"},"modified":"2024-02-07T16:24:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T16:24:23","slug":"police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head","title":{"rendered":"Police Deny Rumor of Arresting Man WithHuman Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span><b>The Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force, ASP Binta Njie, has strongly rejected rumors on social media that police have arrested a man with human head at Kerewan in the North Bank Region.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>News circulating on social media handles on Monday, January 5, 2024, has it that the police in Kerewan station have arrested a man with a human head suspected to be killing children around the locality of Njawara village, NBR, and its surrounding.<\/p>\n<p>In her response to the speculations, Binta Njie told newspaper that the news wasbased on false information.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, we had information that three children were sent to their mother\u2019s garden. They allegedly saw a man with a knife and a cutlass, who they believed was chasing them. The children reported the matter to the police station in Kerewan, and the man was arrested, but during his arrest, none of the weapons mentioned was recovered from him,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n<p>Police PRO further informed this medium that the man is currently with the police in Kerewan and charged with \u2018threatening violence\u2019 contrary to section 84 of the criminal code.<\/p>\n<p>She said audios going around the social media in relation to this incident are inaccurate and advised public to desist from such.<\/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 Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force, ASP Binta Njie, has strongly rejected rumors on social media that police have arrested a man with human head at Kerewan in the North Bank Region. News circulating on social media handles on Monday, January 5, 2024, has it that the police in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":52713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2355,2361,260],"class_list":["post-52714","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>Police Deny Rumor of Arresting Man WithHuman Head - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force, ASP Binta Njie, has strongly rejected rumors on social media ...\" \/>\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\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Deny Rumor of Arresting Man WithHuman Head\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Public Relations Officer of the Gambia Police Force, ASP Binta Njie, has strongly rejected rumors on social media ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\" \/>\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=\"2024-02-07T18:54:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1707310314.16934.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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police Deny Rumor of Arresting Man WithHuman Head\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-07T18:54:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\"},\"wordCount\":224,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2024\/02\/sm_1707310314.16934.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\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/police-deny-rumor-of-arresting-man-withhuman-head\",\"name\":\"Police Deny Rumor of Arresting Man WithHuman Head - 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