{"id":62363,"date":"2025-03-08T23:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T23:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62363"},"modified":"2025-03-08T23:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T23:38:19","slug":"funeral-horror-man-stabbed-to-death-during-mass-in-cross-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/08\/funeral-horror-man-stabbed-to-death-during-mass-in-cross-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Funeral Horror: Man Stabbed to Death During Mass in Cross River"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A funeral mass in Ikot Etim Bott Community, Akpabuyo, Cross River State, descended into chaos when a man, identified as Gideon Gabriel Eyoh Nwosu, was brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight.<\/p>\n<p>The horrifying attack occurred at 9:10 AM during the farewell mass for the late Chief Maurice Ibok.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses were left in shock as the suspect, Efio Effiong, allegedly plunged a knife into the victim\u2019s throat before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>While the motive remains unclear, panic erupted among mourners as they watched in disbelief.<\/p>\n<p>A distress call to law enforcement prompted the swift arrival of Sting Unit Robot police operatives, who evacuated the victim\u2019s body to the State Hospital mortuary for autopsy.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have since launched a manhunt for Effiong, intensifying efforts to track down the fugitive.<\/p>\n<p>The gruesome murder has left the community in fear, turning a solemn occasion into a scene of terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu A funeral mass in Ikot Etim Bott Community, Akpabuyo, Cross River State, descended into chaos when a man, identified as Gideon Gabriel Eyoh Nwosu, was brutally stabbed to death in broad daylight. The horrifying attack occurred at 9:10 AM during the farewell mass for the late Chief Maurice Ibok. Witnesses were left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62363","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\/62363","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=62363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62365,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62363\/revisions\/62365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}