{"id":15101,"date":"2024-02-02T16:02:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/unknown-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-ebonyi\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T16:02:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T16:02:27","slug":"unknown-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/unknown-gunmen-kill-policeman-in-ebonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown gunmen kill policeman in Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unknown gunmen have attacked a police patrol team in the crisis-prone Ngbo-Effium axis in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicated that the incident which occurred on Thursday led to the killing of a police officer, while another one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Joshua Ukandu confirmed this in a statement on Friday in Abakaliki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperatives of the Command on patrol along Ngbo-Effium Road were attacked by armed hoodlums using an ash coloured Toyota Sienna with registration number unknown,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman said the officers engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel.<\/p>\n<p>Ukandu noted that the policeman who sustained injuries is currently receiving medical treatment at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police, Ebonyi State Police Command, CP Augustina Ogbodo immediately dispatched tactical teams of the Command to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team is on the trail of the hoodlums. Meanwhile, calm and normalcy have been restored to the area,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Unknown gunmen kill policeman in Ebonyi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unknown gunmen have attacked a police patrol team in the crisis-prone Ngbo-Effium axis in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,1688,384,15],"tags":[654,1689,387,180],"class_list":["post-15101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi","category-gunmen","category-metro","category-news","tag-ebonyi","tag-gunmen","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}