{"id":92,"date":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=92"},"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 their duty post at the well known Opobo Intersection along the Aba-Ikot Ekpene Expressway in Abia State. It was gathered that the policemen were at the spot for their usual night stop-and-search activity. However, it was reported that in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}