{"id":242961,"date":"2020-08-03T09:47:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T08:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=242961"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T09:02:19","slug":"rivers-police-rescue-9-passengers-kill-3-suspected-kidnappers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=242961","title":{"rendered":"Rivers Police rescue 9 passengers, kill 3 suspected kidnappers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Three suspected armed robbers have died in a gun battle with the Police after a failed attempt to kidnap passengers of an 18-seater bus on Okehi\/Igbodo express road, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State.<br \/>\nThis is contained in a statement by the Rivers State Police Command.<br \/>\nSpokesman of the Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni in the statement said the death of the kidnappers followed a swift response to a distress call by men of the Anti-Robbery Squad attached to the Okehi Police Division.<br \/>\nSP Omoni said the timely response of the police also led to the release of the nine passengers onboard the vehicle and who continued their journey unhurt.<br \/>\nSP Nnamdi stated that, \u201cA manhunt has been launched for the arrest of the fleeing members of the armed robbery gang.<br \/>\n\u201cWeapons recovered at the scene include, one locally made single barrel gun and rounds of live Cartridges.\u201d\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three suspected armed robbers have died in a gun battle with the Police after a failed attempt to kidnap passengers of an 18-seater bus on Okehi\/Igbodo express road, Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State. This is contained in a statement by the Rivers State Police Command. Spokesman of the Command, SP Nnamdi Omoni in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242962,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,7776,61],"class_list":["post-242961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-arm-robbery","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242961","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=242961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}