{"id":21031,"date":"2024-03-08T17:03:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-confirm-killing-of-four-cops-two-civilians-in-ebonyi\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T17:03:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T17:03:57","slug":"police-confirm-killing-of-four-cops-two-civilians-in-ebonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/police-confirm-killing-of-four-cops-two-civilians-in-ebonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm killing of four cops, two civilians in Ebonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of four personnel by unknown armed hoodlums suspected to be IPOB\/ESN members in the early hours of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had earlier reported that unknown gunmen killed some policemen in the state on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Police Public Relations officer PPRO), DSP Joshua Ukandu, confirmed the incident in a statement issued on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the statement read: \u201cToday 08\/03\/2024 at about 05:00am, operatives of the Command who were posted to duty at hilltop stop and search\/pin-down point along Nwofe Road, at the outskirts of Abakaliki, were attacked by armed hoodlums suspected to be IPOB\/ESN members, who shot sporadically at the operatives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe operatives engaged the hoodlums in a fierce gun duel, and in the ensuing gun battle, the hoodlums scampered and abandoned a pump action rifle which was recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFour (4) of the operatives paid the supreme price, while two (2) civilians were caught in the crossfire and killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the Commissioner of Police, CP Augustina Ogbodo, swiftly dispatched tactical teams of the Command to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said the tactical teams are on the trail of the fleeing hoodlums.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirm killing of four cops, two civilians in Ebonyi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ebonyi State Police Command has confirmed the killing of four personnel by unknown armed hoodlums suspected to be IPOB\/ESN&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[651,384,15,310],"tags":[654,387,180,99],"class_list":["post-21031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ebonyi","category-metro","category-news","category-police","tag-ebonyi","tag-metro","tag-news","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031","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=21031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}