{"id":62383,"date":"2025-03-09T12:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62383"},"modified":"2025-03-09T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T12:05:15","slug":"tears-anger-as-three-siblings-murdered-hidden-in-freezer-are-laid-to-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/09\/tears-anger-as-three-siblings-murdered-hidden-in-freezer-are-laid-to-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Tears, Anger as Three Siblings Murdered, Hidden in Freezer Are Laid to Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grief and outrage swept through Nnewi, Anambra State, on Saturday as the three Ejezie siblings\u2014Chikaima (9), Chimziterem (8), and Chimdirim (5)\u2014brutally murdered and hidden in a deep freezer, were laid to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Their remains, discovered on February 1, were buried at their family compound in Uga, Aguata LGA, amid emotional scenes of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>At the requiem mass at St. Michael\u2019s Catholic Church, Cardinal Ebere Okpalaeke likened their deaths to the biblical tragedy of Cain and Abel, describing them as martyrs and calling for justice.<\/p>\n<p>The horrific killings have sparked widespread outrage, with demands for a full investigation to expose those responsible for the chilling crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu\u00a0 Grief and outrage swept through Nnewi, Anambra State, on Saturday as the three Ejezie siblings\u2014Chikaima (9), Chimziterem (8), and Chimdirim (5)\u2014brutally murdered and hidden in a deep freezer, were laid to rest. Their remains, discovered on February 1, were buried at their family compound in Uga, Aguata LGA, amid emotional scenes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62383","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\/62383","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=62383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62384,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62383\/revisions\/62384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}