{"id":67640,"date":"2025-06-09T11:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67640"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:33:17","slug":"phone-thief-stabs-naval-officer-to-death-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/09\/phone-thief-stabs-naval-officer-to-death-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"Phone Thief Stabs Naval Officer to Death in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tragedy struck over the weekend in Kaduna as a Naval officer was fatally stabbed by a phone thief while attempting to fix a flat tyre near the pedestrian bridge in Kawo, Kaduna North Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the officer was a senior course participant at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, and had stopped briefly at a bus stop near the bridge on his way back to Jaji when he was attacked.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the assailant approached the officer and demanded his phone. When the officer resisted, he was stabbed in the chest with a locally made knife.<\/p>\n<p>The officer was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival. His body has been deposited at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital mortuary in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>A local vigilante who tried to intervene during the attack was stabbed in the hand. However, the assailant was overpowered by a crowd that had gathered at the scene and was lynched.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe thief was overpowered by the people and killed instantly,\u201d a witness said.<\/p>\n<p>Military authorities have launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the officer\u2019s death, while the Kaduna State Police Command is yet to release an official statement on the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Tragedy struck over the weekend in Kaduna as a Naval officer was fatally stabbed by a phone thief while attempting to fix a flat tyre near the pedestrian bridge in Kawo, Kaduna North Local Government Area. Eyewitnesses said the officer was a senior course participant at the Armed Forces Command and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1724],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-insecurity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640","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=67640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67642,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67640\/revisions\/67642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}