{"id":61876,"date":"2025-02-28T02:22:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61876"},"modified":"2025-02-28T02:22:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T02:22:41","slug":"abuja-gunmen-abduct-motorists-passengers-near-abacha-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/28\/abuja-gunmen-abduct-motorists-passengers-near-abacha-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja: Gunmen Abduct Motorists, Passengers Near Abacha Barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panic gripped Abuja residents as armed men staged a brazen late-night attack near Abacha Barracks bypass in Guzape, abducting several motorists and passengers.<\/p>\n<p>The incident, which occurred around 11:31 p.m. on Tuesday, saw the gunmen block the road, seize their victims, and flee into the surrounding bushes, leaving behind abandoned vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Security sources revealed that a black Toyota Prado Land Cruiser (Abuja RBC 900 SF), reportedly belonging to Hon. Shagala Samuel, and a Honda Civic (RSH 181 TH) were found at the scene, indicating that their occupants might be among the abducted.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to track the kidnappers have so far yielded no results, despite security operatives combing the area.<\/p>\n<p>In response, the FCT Police Command has placed its Anti-Kidnapping Unit on high alert, vowing to intensify rescue efforts and curb the rising wave of abductions in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Panic gripped Abuja residents as armed men staged a brazen late-night attack near Abacha Barracks bypass in Guzape, abducting several motorists and passengers. The incident, which occurred around 11:31 p.m. on Tuesday, saw the gunmen block the road, seize their victims, and flee into the surrounding bushes, leaving behind abandoned vehicles. Security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61876","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\/61876","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=61876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61877,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61876\/revisions\/61877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}