{"id":144075,"date":"2019-08-16T14:27:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144075"},"modified":"2019-08-16T14:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T13:27:47","slug":"police-confirm-kidnap-of-pregnant-woman-in-sokoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144075","title":{"rendered":"Police confirm kidnap of pregnant woman in Sokoto"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Sokoto State police command has confirmed the disappearance of a pregnant woman suspected to have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen.<\/p>\n

According to Guardian newspaper, the victim, Luba Bello, was reportedly abducted from her home at about 2:00am yesterday, in Katura, Dange Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto.<\/p>\n

A neighbour to the victim, who narrated the incident to newsmen on the condition of anonymity, said: \u201cHajiya Luba is a younger sister of a prominent politician in the local council.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kidnappers, seven in number and fully armed, stormed Katura village, shooting indiscriminately to frighten people, beat the husband, leaving him with scar before abducting the wife.\u201d<\/p>\n

The source further said the suspected kidnappers were yet to contact the family.<\/p>\n

When contacted, the PPRO, Sokoto police command, ASP Sadiq Abubakar confirmed the incident, and declared that the police were on the trail of the abductors.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sokoto State police command has confirmed the disappearance of a pregnant woman suspected to have been kidnapped by unknown gunmen. According to Guardian newspaper, the victim, Luba Bello, was reportedly abducted from her home at about 2:00am yesterday, in Katura, Dange Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto. A neighbour to the victim, who narrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128562,"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":[12751,200],"class_list":["post-144075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-kidnapers-2","tag-sokoto"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075","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=144075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}