{"id":145912,"date":"2019-08-22T20:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145912"},"modified":"2019-08-22T20:11:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:11:39","slug":"gunmen-attack-imo-community-kill-five-injure-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145912","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Attack Imo Community, Kill Five, Injure Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\/01\/Gunmen-Waylay-Former-S\u2019Court-Justice-Mamman-Nasir-Kidnap-Orderly-Driver.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<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>At least five persons were killed by some gunmen in the early hours of Thursday in Ilile, a community in Ohaji-Egbema Council Area, Imo State.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen stormed the community around 3:00am, killing a retired police officer and a leader in the community.<\/p>\n<p>Also, many other people were hospitalised after sustaining bullet wounds.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness, who spoke on the incident, said, \u201cFive persons have been confirmed dead. Among the dead are a retired police officer, Mr Ukpabi, the immediate past president-general of our community, Napoleon Amadi, a member of vigilante group in our community, Uwagwu Eze and two others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree persons died on the spot while two others died at the hospitals. Several others are lying critically at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe hoodlums killed the victims in their houses while they were asleep. It was indeed a tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Police Public Relations Officers in the state, Orlando Ikeokwu, said three persons were killed, adding that he could not ascertain the cause of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI can confirm that three persons were killed. But I cannot confirm if it was cult-related because they came and shot their targets. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commissioner of Police has ordered a full-blown investigation into the killings with a view to bringing the perpetrators to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least five persons were killed by some gunmen in the early hours of Thursday in Ilile, a community in Ohaji-Egbema Council Area, Imo State. The gunmen stormed the community around 3:00am, killing a retired police officer and a leader in the community. Also, many other people were hospitalised after sustaining bullet wounds. An eyewitness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76898,"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-145912","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\/145912","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=145912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}