{"id":57036,"date":"2024-11-26T12:45:10","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=57036"},"modified":"2024-11-26T12:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T12:45:10","slug":"mob-kill-two-artisans-in-benin-city-mistakenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/11\/26\/mob-kill-two-artisans-in-benin-city-mistakenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Kill Two Artisans in Benin City Mistakenly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Faith Adama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck in Benin City, Edo State, on November 16, when two innocent artisans, Osamudiamen Ehigie and Nosa Aghimie, were fatally mistaken for armed robbers by a mob.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, returning from a worksite in the Amagba community around 6 p.m., were tragically attacked by residents who, fueled by fear and confusion, mistook them for criminals.<\/p>\n<p>The artisans sought refuge in a nearby home, but panic led to a deadly confrontation before anyone could clear up the misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>In a swift response, the police have arrested three suspects, but the families of the victims are calling for justice for the wrongful deaths of their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has left the community reeling, highlighting the dangerous consequences of mob violence fueled by misidentification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faith Adama Tragedy struck in Benin City, Edo State, on November 16, when two innocent artisans, Osamudiamen Ehigie and Nosa Aghimie, were fatally mistaken for armed robbers by a mob. The pair, returning from a worksite in the Amagba community around 6 p.m., were tragically attacked by residents who, fueled by fear and confusion, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":57037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57036","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\/57036","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57038,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57036\/revisions\/57038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}