{"id":162348,"date":"2019-10-22T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162348"},"modified":"2019-10-22T21:25:14","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T20:25:14","slug":"just-in-seven-killed-houses-burnt-as-gang-violence-erupted-in-cross-river-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=162348","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Seven killed, houses burnt as gang violence erupted in Cross River Community"},"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\/09\/Hundreds-Flee-Homes-As-Terrorists-Attack-Community-In-Borno.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least seven person have lost their lives while several houses were torched during a gang violence that broke out in Okundi under Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State in the early hours of Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The violence was said to have been triggered by the killing of a young man named Joseph Bankong, who is opposed to cult activities in the area on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>A resident of the community, who witnessed the incident, said, \u201cThe killing of Bankong made the entire community to rise up against suspected cult members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the process, Alphonsus Etta Ewung, Otu Agbor Edum, and Chief Paulinus Otu\u2019s son among others were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police in the state, Austin Agbonlahor, confirmed the incident, adding that \u201cThe police are on ground now\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least seven person have lost their lives while several houses were torched during a gang violence that broke out in Okundi under Boki Local Government Area of Cross River State in the early hours of Tuesday. The violence was said to have been triggered by the killing of a young man named Joseph Bankong, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156008,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4154,61,764],"class_list":["post-162348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cross-river","tag-police","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162348","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=162348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/156008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}