{"id":21363,"date":"2024-03-10T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gunmen-kills-chorister-in-benin\/"},"modified":"2024-03-10T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-10T19:03:45","slug":"gunmen-kills-chorister-in-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/gunmen-kills-chorister-in-benin\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kills chorister in Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A chorister at a pentecostal church<br \/>\nsimply identified as Mr success was last Sunday shot death by suspected gunmen.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST reports that the incident happened on the fateful day at about 8 am.<\/p>\n<p>It gathered that the church is located around Murtala Mohammed Way, Benin City.<\/p>\n<p>It was also gathered that the deceased and other worshippers were reportedly taking their Sunday school\u2019s teaching when the gunmen stormed the church.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST further gathered that the victim was said to have received a telephone call, and stepped out of the church hall, apparently to attend to the caller.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity said immediately the victim stepped out, one of the assailants held him by his waist within the church premises.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, in the ensuing confusion, Success was wrestled to the ground while another assailant emerged and shot him dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe gunmen thereafter collected his (success) mobile phone before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe incident reportedly threw the worshippers into confusion and wailing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll efforts to revive the victim was unsuccessful as he was pronounced dead at a private medical facility he was rushed to for medicare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the Edo State Police Command, SP Chidi Nwabuzor, who confirmed the incident, said investigation is on to arrest the perpetrators.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen kills chorister in Benin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A chorister at a pentecostal church simply identified as Mr success was last Sunday shot death by suspected gunmen. DAILY&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8121,1688,384,15],"tags":[5823,1689,387,180],"class_list":["post-21363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-benin","category-gunmen","category-metro","category-news","tag-benin","tag-gunmen","tag-metro","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363","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=21363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}