{"id":19105,"date":"2024-02-26T13:03:31","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kwara-hunter-found-dead-after-gun-battle-with-kidnappers\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T13:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T13:03:31","slug":"kwara-hunter-found-dead-after-gun-battle-with-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/kwara-hunter-found-dead-after-gun-battle-with-kidnappers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara: Hunter found dead after gun battle with kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>One of the hunters who engaged a gang of suspected kidnappers in a gun battle at Gaa Sulu community, Omupo District olin Ifelodun Local Government of Kwara State, has been found dead.<\/p>\n<p>He lost his live in the aborted kidnap attempt on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that a gun battle ensued between local hunters and suspected kidnappers last Friday in which one of the kidnappers was gunned down and the three abducted victims, a man and two women, were rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the suspected kidnappers were also arrested by a joint team of police operatives and local hunters.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST learnt on Monday that one of the hunters unfortunately lost his live in the battle against the kidnappers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was not known to us till this morning when his decomposed corpse was discovered at a nearby bush close to the area where there was an exchange of gunfire between the hunters and the kidnappers,\u201d a source in the community said.<\/p>\n<p>Kwara: Hunter found dead after gun battle with kidnappers<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hunters who engaged a gang of suspected kidnappers in a gun battle at Gaa Sulu community, Omupo&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1372,384,15],"tags":[176,387,180],"class_list":["post-19105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kwara","category-metro","category-news","tag-kwara","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105","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=19105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}