{"id":64345,"date":"2025-04-16T09:18:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64345"},"modified":"2025-04-16T09:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T09:18:43","slug":"gunmen-invade-benue-community-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/16\/gunmen-invade-benue-community-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Invade Benue Community Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Panic has gripped the Otobi community in Akpa district of Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State, following a fresh attack by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The assault, which occurred around 5:30pm, left many feared dead and forced residents to flee their homes in terror.<\/p>\n<p>Although the exact number of casualties remains unclear, the atmosphere in the area is one of fear and uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, Benue State Police spokesperson, Sewuese Anene, told journalists that the situation is still unfolding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was a call from the Otobi community and officers were dispatched there. But the officers who were sent are still there and they have not sent a report,\u201d Anene stated, indicating that full details of the attack are yet to reach the command.<\/p>\n<p>This latest attack adds to the growing wave of insecurity plaguing parts of Benue State, where repeated assaults on rural communities have continued to raise concern among residents and authorities.<\/p>\n<p>As investigations continue, there is growing anxiety over the safety of those who fled and the need for urgent government intervention to prevent further bloodshed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Panic has gripped the Otobi community in Akpa district of Otukpo Local Government Area, Benue State, following a fresh attack by unidentified gunmen on Tuesday evening. The assault, which occurred around 5:30pm, left many feared dead and forced residents to flee their homes in terror. Although the exact number of casualties remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345","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=64345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64347,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64345\/revisions\/64347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}