{"id":143691,"date":"2019-08-14T23:25:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T22:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143691"},"modified":"2019-08-15T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:33:05","slug":"tension-in-rivers-as-scores-feared-killed-during-gang-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=143691","title":{"rendered":"Tension In Rivers As Scores Feared Killed During Gang Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Fulani-Herdsmen-Attack-Plateau-Village-Kill-Soldier-Three-Others.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dozens of persons have been feared killed in Taaba and Okwali communities in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, according to a report by PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p>Some armed youths whose identities are yet to be ascertained, stormed the communities around 6:00pm on Tuesday and also on Wednesday morning, killing and burning down houses.<\/p>\n<p>According to some residents, who spoke, the attack was the handiwork of cult gangs taking out their anger at perceived enemies in the affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attackers raided Okwali community yesterday (Tuesday) evening around 6:00pm, shooting continuously into the air and at their targets and also burning houses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis morning (Wednesday), they also attacked Taaba community which is the neighbouring town to Okwali, shooting and killing several persons also.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot tell the number of corpses on the ground because I couldn\u2019t count, but they were many,\u201d one resident said.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson for the police in Rivers, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, confirmed the incident, disclosing that they had begun a hunt for the perpetrators of the act.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of persons have been feared killed in Taaba and Okwali communities in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State, according to a report by PUNCH. Some armed youths whose identities are yet to be ascertained, stormed the communities around 6:00pm on Tuesday and also on Wednesday morning, killing and burning down houses. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127805,"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":[3773,1,3],"tags":[4866,9653,5633],"class_list":["post-143691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-crime","tag-gang","tag-killings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143691","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=143691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}