{"id":396271,"date":"2021-09-22T21:24:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=396271"},"modified":"2021-09-22T21:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T20:25:44","slug":"unknown-gunmen-attack-abuja-hotel-kill-police-officer-injure-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=396271","title":{"rendered":"Unknown gunmen attack Abuja hotel, kill police officer, injure guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Some unknown gunmen have attacked Hilltop International Premium Hotel at Tunga-Maje in the Gwagwalada Area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja.<br \/>\nDAILY POST gathered that the incident which occurred on Tuesday night, claimed the life of a police officer when security operatives engaged the assailants in a gun battle.<br \/>\nThree other persons who were lodging in the hotel prior to the attack sustained several degrees of injuries during the incident.<br \/>\nWhen contacted by DAILY POST, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, Josephine Adeh confirmed the incident.<br \/>\n\u201cShe said, \u201csome gunmen attacked the hotel last night and police officers engaged them in a gun battle. Unfortunately, one of our men paid the supreme price\u201d.<br \/>\nWhen asked if there has been any arrests in that regard, she said, \u201cno suspect has been arrested yet but the command has commenced investigation into the incident\u201d.<br \/>\nDAILY POST recalls that a similar incident had occurred in the hotel in June, when a former member of the Kogi State House of Assembly, Friday Makama and eight occupants of the facility were kidnapped.<\/div>\n<p><strong><em>(DailyPost)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some unknown gunmen have attacked Hilltop International Premium Hotel at Tunga-Maje in the Gwagwalada Area of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja. DAILY POST gathered that the incident which occurred on Tuesday night, claimed the life of a police officer when security operatives engaged the assailants in a gun battle. Three other persons who were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":396272,"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":[4166,61],"class_list":["post-396271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-gunmen","tag-police"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396271","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=396271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}