{"id":58627,"date":"2024-12-29T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58627"},"modified":"2024-12-29T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T08:00:19","slug":"kwara-police-rescue-13-kidnapped-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/29\/kwara-police-rescue-13-kidnapped-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Kwara Police Rescue 13 Kidnapped Victims\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Kwara State Police Command rescued 13 kidnap victims on December 21, 2024, following a coordinated operation.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, abducted by armed assailants en route to a wedding in Kogi State, were freed in the Idofin-Igbana area.<\/p>\n<p>DSP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, confirmed in a statement that the operation was conducted in collaboration with the Oke-Ero Local Government Security Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on credible intelligence, police operatives swiftly located the suspects&#8217; hideout.<\/p>\n<p>The six kidnappers, some in military uniforms, engaged the team in a gunfight but were overpowered and fled, leaving their captives behind.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, including 10 males and three females from Odo-Owa, Ilorin, Ogbomoso, and Kogi, were freed.<\/p>\n<p>Two victims suffered minor gunshot wounds but were treated at a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n<p>All victims were later reunited with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police Victor Olaiya commended the rescue team and local communities for their timely support, reaffirming the police\u2019s commitment to fighting crime in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The operation highlighted the importance of community collaboration in ensuring public safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu The Kwara State Police Command rescued 13 kidnap victims on December 21, 2024, following a coordinated operation. The victims, abducted by armed assailants en route to a wedding in Kogi State, were freed in the Idofin-Igbana area. DSP Toun Ejire-Adeyemi, the Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, confirmed in a statement that the operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58627","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\/58627","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58629,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58627\/revisions\/58629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}