{"id":141544,"date":"2019-08-06T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=141544"},"modified":"2019-08-06T18:04:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:04:04","slug":"two-persons-reportedly-killed-as-armed-robbers-raid-wema-bank-in-ondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=141544","title":{"rendered":"Two persons reportedly killed as armed robbers raid WEMA Bank in Ondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Miyetti-Allah-reacts-as-gunmen-kill-its-leader.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Armed gunmen on Tuesday attacked a commercial bank in Iju, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State, leaving two persons dead.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen who were said to have stormed Wema bank on Tuesday\u2019s afternoon were confronted by men of the Nigeria Army as well as police officers.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the attack to DAILY POST, the Ondo State Commissioner of Police, Undie Asked disclosed that his men were able to foil the operation.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his men are currently in the bush searching for the armed robbers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur men are currently trailing the robbers in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwhen they were confronted by security operatives, they abandoned the operation as well as their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll give updates as soon as possible. I\u2019m on my way to the town where the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some staff and customers were equally injured during the shoot out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed gunmen on Tuesday attacked a commercial bank in Iju, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State, leaving two persons dead. The gunmen who were said to have stormed Wema bank on Tuesday\u2019s afternoon were confronted by men of the Nigeria Army as well as police officers. Confirming the attack to DAILY POST, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140860,"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":[7776],"class_list":["post-141544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-arm-robbery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141544","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=141544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}