{"id":360238,"date":"2021-06-03T14:21:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=360238"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T13:22:15","slug":"police-foils-bandits-attack-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=360238","title":{"rendered":"Police foils bandits\u2019 attack in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The Zamfara State Police Command has foiled bandit attacks on a Fulani settlement at the outskirts of Anka town, Bagega-Anka Road in the state.<br \/>\nThe command in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu said that the armed men stormed the area at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday and began shooting sporadically.<br \/>\n\u201dThe police tactical operatives deployed to Anka LG, were alerted that, armed bandits in their hundreds stormed a Fulani settlement located on the outskirts of Anka town with intent to attack and rustle cows.\u201d<br \/>\nThe police team in collaboration with the military, mobilized to the scene where they engaged the hoodlums in a gun duel.<br \/>\n\u201cAs a result, they scampered into the forest,\u201d Shehu said.<br \/>\nAccording to him, all the rustled cows were recovered.<br \/>\n(DailyPost)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zamfara State Police Command has foiled bandit attacks on a Fulani settlement at the outskirts of Anka town, Bagega-Anka Road in the state. The command in a statement issued by the Public Relations Officer, SP Muhammad Shehu said that the armed men stormed the area at about 5 p.m. on Wednesday and began shooting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360239,"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":[2611,61,271],"class_list":["post-360238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bandits","tag-police","tag-zamfara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360238","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=360238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/360239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}