{"id":67652,"date":"2025-06-09T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67652"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:32:33","slug":"french-tourist-found-dead-in-benue-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/09\/french-tourist-found-dead-in-benue-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"French Tourist Found Dead in Benue Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A 67-year-old French national, Pietier Gilles, has been found dead in a hotel room in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State.<\/p>\n<p>Gilles, who was reportedly on a long-distance cycling tour from Niger Republic, arrived in Nigeria on May 19 and checked into Hotel Jovina in Gboko on Friday, June 7.<\/p>\n<p>He was discovered dead in his room the following day, Saturday, June 8.<\/p>\n<p>Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Sewuese Anene, confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report made by the hotel manager, Emmanuel Laha, the tourist had complained of feeling unwell but declined to be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A medical practitioner was later invited to examine him, but he was found unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p>Police officers who responded to the report visited the scene, took photographs, and moved the body to the General Hospital in Gboko for autopsy and preservation.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say an investigation is ongoing and further details will be made available upon conclusion of the autopsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola &nbsp; A 67-year-old French national, Pietier Gilles, has been found dead in a hotel room in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. Gilles, who was reportedly on a long-distance cycling tour from Niger Republic, arrived in Nigeria on May 19 and checked into Hotel Jovina in Gboko on Friday, June 7. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67652","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=67652"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67654,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67652\/revisions\/67654"}],"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=67652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}