{"id":10232,"date":"2023-12-11T09:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2023-12-11T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:55:29","slug":"just-in-bandits-kidnap-mother-and-three-children-including-infant-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/12\/11\/just-in-bandits-kidnap-mother-and-three-children-including-infant-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"JUST IN: Bandits Kidnap Mother and Three Children, Including Infant, in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night, bandits attacked the Zone 5 section of the Kubwa Extension 2 Relocation Estate along Arab Road in the Federal Capital Territory, kidnapping a woman and her three children, including a six-month-old baby.<\/p>\n<p>Gunmen reportedly struck between 8 pm and 9 pm on Sunday, December 10, firing shots indiscriminately and causing chaos in the area.<\/p>\n<p>A resident, who chose not to disclose their identity, expressed to the media on Monday that kidnapping has become a recurring event in the area every December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kidnapping has become a regular occurrence here every December. If you remember very well, last December,&#8221; said the resident.<\/p>\n<p>Another resident attributed the kidnappings to a lack of sufficient security in the area, emphasizing that the incident on Sunday involved the abduction of an entire family \u2013 a mother and her three children, including a six-month-old baby, at Zone 5, Kubwa Extension 2 Relocation Estate.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of reporting, the FCT Police Command had not provided an official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday night, bandits attacked the Zone 5 section of the Kubwa Extension 2 Relocation Estate along Arab Road in the Federal Capital Territory, kidnapping a woman and her three children, including a six-month-old baby. Gunmen reportedly struck between 8 pm and 9 pm on Sunday, December 10, firing shots indiscriminately and causing chaos in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":10238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10264,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10232\/revisions\/10264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}