{"id":67638,"date":"2025-06-09T11:17:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67638"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:17:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:17:48","slug":"police-rescue-11-kidnap-victims-in-katsina-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/09\/police-rescue-11-kidnap-victims-in-katsina-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue 11 Kidnap Victims in Katsina Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Katsina State Police Command says joint security forces have foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued 11 victims during a patrol operation in Danmusa Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at about 10.30 pm on Sunday, June 8, when a combined team of police operatives, the military, DSS, Operation Sharan Daji personnel, vigilantes, and members of the Katsina State Community Watch Corps confronted a group of armed bandits along the Danmusa to Mara Dangeza road.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Abubakar Sadiq, the bandits, who had abducted the victims from different locations, were intercepted as they attempted to escape.<\/p>\n<p>A gun battle ensued, forcing the attackers to flee and leading to the successful rescue of all eleven hostages, which included nine women and two men.<\/p>\n<p>The police said an investigation is underway to apprehend the fleeing suspects and to avert future incidents.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police, CP Bello Shehu, praised the operatives for their courage and restated the command\u2019s dedication to combating kidnapping and other crimes in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He called on residents to support security efforts by promptly reporting any suspicious activity to the police or through emergency hotlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere &nbsp; The Katsina State Police Command says joint security forces have foiled a kidnap attempt and rescued 11 victims during a patrol operation in Danmusa Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred at about 10.30 pm on Sunday, June 8, when a combined team of police operatives, the military, DSS, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67639,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67638\/revisions\/67639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}