{"id":2232,"date":"2023-09-19T13:52:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=2232"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:52:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:52:52","slug":"gunmen-kill-security-operatives-set-cars-ablaze-in-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2023\/09\/19\/gunmen-kill-security-operatives-set-cars-ablaze-in-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Kill Security Operatives, Set Cars Ablaze in Imo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen have killed some security operatives and burnt several vehicles in Oriagu, Ehime-Mbano LGA of Imo state.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The security operatives were said to have been on patrol along Aba-branch Oriagu in Ehime-Mbano road when the gunmen ambushed them and killed over six joint task force officers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A voice in a viral video said the security operatives were in Toyota Hilux vehicles and were driving from Oriagu market to Aba-branch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spotted two Hilux patrol vehicles pass my shop and I never knew they were being traced by bandits. Just few minutes later, I started hearing that those officers have been shot dead at Aba branch,\u201d the voice said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I got there, the two Hilux vehicles were on fire with the officers burnt beyond recognition. As I speak, Oriagu and Isinweke are blocked at the moment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInhabitants of the areas have run away for fear of the unknown. The areas have been cordoned off by the police and army as the place is currently boiling.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gunmen have killed some security operatives and burnt several vehicles in Oriagu, Ehime-Mbano LGA of Imo state. &nbsp; The security operatives were said to have been on patrol along Aba-branch Oriagu in Ehime-Mbano road when the gunmen ambushed them and killed over six joint task force officers. &nbsp; The incident occurred on Tuesday morning. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-2232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions\/2233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}