{"id":41552,"date":"2024-08-01T14:18:29","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=41552"},"modified":"2024-08-01T14:18:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T14:18:29","slug":"police-shoot-and-kill-six-protesters-in-niger-state-hunger-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/01\/police-shoot-and-kill-six-protesters-in-niger-state-hunger-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Shoot and Kill Six Protesters in Niger State Hunger Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The police operatives in Niger State have shot and killed six protesters during the ongoing hunger protests. The protests, which have been largely peaceful, erupted in several parts of the state as citizens voiced their frustration over the rising cost of living and food scarcity.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses reported that the situation escalated quickly when the police opened fire on the crowd, resulting in the fatalities. The circumstances leading to the use of lethal force by the police are still unclear, and the incident has sparked outrage among citizens and human rights organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have yet to release an official statement regarding the incident. Further details are expected to emerge as the situation develops.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on this unfolding story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The police operatives in Niger State have shot and killed six protesters during the ongoing hunger protests. The protests, which have been largely peaceful, erupted in several parts of the state as citizens voiced their frustration over the rising cost of living and food scarcity. Eyewitnesses reported that the situation escalated quickly when the police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":41553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41552","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41552"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41556,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41552\/revisions\/41556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}