{"id":58863,"date":"2025-01-03T06:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58863"},"modified":"2025-01-03T06:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T06:47:28","slug":"police-officer-kills-woman-in-ado-ekiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/03\/police-officer-kills-woman-in-ado-ekiti\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer Kills Woman in Ado-Ekiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A police officer&#8217;s accidental discharge of a firearm tragically claimed the life of a woman in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred near the Okela Police Post, where the woman had reportedly gone to visit her detained husband. While standing outside a salon opposite the station, she was struck by the officer\u2019s bullet.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being rushed to the hospital, she was pronounced dead by medical personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, AIG Akinwale Adeniran, disclosed that the officer has been disarmed and detained for interrogation in line with the Police Act.<\/p>\n<p>The move is part of efforts to ensure a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The tragic event highlights the urgent need for strict adherence to firearm safety protocols among law enforcement personnel.<\/p>\n<p>As investigations continue, the community mourns the loss and calls for measures to prevent such occurrences in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A police officer&#8217;s accidental discharge of a firearm tragically claimed the life of a woman in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday evening. The incident occurred near the Okela Police Post, where the woman had reportedly gone to visit her detained husband. While standing outside a salon opposite the station, she was struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":58864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863","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=58863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58865,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58863\/revisions\/58865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}