{"id":3239,"date":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/restore\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","slug":"gunmen-attack-police-checkpoint-in-abia-state-kill-two-officers-injure-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/gunmen-attack-police-checkpoint-in-abia-state-kill-two-officers-injure-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Attack Police Checkpoint In Abia State, Kill Two Officers, Injure One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unknown gunmen on Friday evening killed two police officers and injured another following an attack on their duty post at the well known Opobo Intersection along the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Expressway in Abia State.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was gathered that the policemen were at the spot for their usual night stop-and-search activity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, it was reported that in a few minutes, several police patrol teams arrived in the area as residents fled the road.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An eyewitness account stated that the gunmen, numbering six, came in a Sienna sport utility vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shooting caused pandemonium in the area and shop owners along the road and traders closing shops and scampering for safety<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: SaharaReporters<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown gunmen on Friday evening killed two police officers and injured another following an attack on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":3241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}