{"id":139108,"date":"2019-07-28T22:28:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T21:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139108"},"modified":"2019-07-28T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T21:28:08","slug":"gunmen-kill-businessman-kidnap-sons-wife-in-kebbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=139108","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill businessman, kidnap son\u2019s wife in Kebbi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gunmen, on Sunday morning killed a businessman in Gulma town of Kebbi, Alhaji Yusuf Garkar-Bore, and abducted his daughter-in-law, Mrs Aisha Yusuf.<\/p>\n

A member of the family, who did not want his name mentioned for security reasons, told NAN that the gunmen invaded the community at about 2 am, and attacked the home of 65 year-old Garkar-Bore, shooting him in the chest and abducting his son\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cAlhaji was shot severally in the chest; we took him to Argungu General Hospital for treatment but he was confirmed dead; he has been buried according to Islamic rites today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The source also said no information had been received on the whereabouts of the wife of the son.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not know her whereabout now because the kidnappers have not contacted the family.\u201d<\/p>\n

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state, DSP Nafiu Abubakar, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware of the incident and our men have been drafted to the scene,\u201d he said, adding that no contact had been established with the criminals.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gunmen, on Sunday morning killed a businessman in Gulma town of Kebbi, Alhaji Yusuf Garkar-Bore, and abducted his daughter-in-law, Mrs Aisha Yusuf. A member of the family, who did not want his name mentioned for security reasons, told NAN that the gunmen invaded the community at about 2 am, and attacked the home of 65 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}