{"id":358105,"date":"2021-05-28T23:03:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358105"},"modified":"2021-05-28T23:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:06:44","slug":"how-security-operatives-killed-5-arrested-6-while-attempting-to-attack-police-station-in-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=358105","title":{"rendered":"How security operatives killed 5, arrested 6 while attempting to attack police station in Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"description\" wp_automatic_readability=\"68.962287869265\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1433061 size-large jetpack-lazy-image\" alt=\"Rivers\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=1536%2C864&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=58%2C33&amp;ssl=1 58w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=260%2C146&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=200%2C112&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?w=1620&amp;ssl=1 1620w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.vanguardngr.com\/inc\/uploads\/2020\/07\/rivers-map.jpg?resize=640%2C360&amp;is-pending-load=1#038;ssl=1\"><\/p>\n<p>Five gunmen have been killed, while six were arrested by security men suspected to be operatives of the Nigeria Police during a failed attempt to attack a police Division in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><\/p>\n<p>Vanguard learnt that the gunmen who were camping at a forest between Oyigbo and Eleme LGAs were getting ready to launch the attack before they were ambushed by the security operatives following an intelligence report.<\/p>\n<p>A source, who spoke in confidence, said the bandits had opened fire on the security men on sighting them, leading to a gun battle which left five of the hoodlums killed.<\/p>\n<p>The source said: \u201cMany of them who came from the Oyigbo axis on their way to Eleme were killed. More than six of them were arrested by the police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe body of those killed were thrown into a Hilux van, as were those arrested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also said that the development caused panic in the area, due to the loud sound of gunshots that rented the air early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>It said: \u201cAs I speak with you now, the place is tensed because of the heavy shooting we heard last night and early this morning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>However, the State Police Public Relations Officer, SP. Nnamdi Omoni, said he was yet to get report of the incident, but promised to contact the relevant division.<\/p>\n<p>Also, efforts to reach spokesman of the 6 Division Nigeria Army, Port Harcourt, Charles Ekeocha for confirmation proved abortive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five gunmen have been killed, while six were arrested by security men suspected to be operatives of the Nigeria Police during a failed attempt to attack a police Division in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State, Friday morning. Vanguard learnt that the gunmen who were camping at a forest between Oyigbo and Eleme LGAs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346352,"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":[16304,516],"class_list":["post-358105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-esn","tag-ipob"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358105","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=358105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}