{"id":68175,"date":"2025-06-16T09:29:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68175"},"modified":"2025-06-16T09:29:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T09:29:19","slug":"village-head-killed-residents-abducted-in-nasarawa-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/16\/village-head-killed-residents-abducted-in-nasarawa-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Head Killed, Residents Abducted in Nasarawa Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terror struck Tse Yange, a Tiv community in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, late Sunday night, as suspected herdsmen launched a deadly assault on the village.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers, reportedly on motorbikes, stormed the farming settlement under the cover of darkness, killing the village head and abducting several residents.<\/p>\n<p>The violence, which continued into the early hours of Monday, forced many villagers to flee their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses described scenes of panic and chaos, with multiple injuries reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, the exact number of casualties and abductees remains unconfirmed as of press time.<\/p>\n<p>The attack has reignited fears over rising insecurity in rural Nasarawa, particularly in communities with a history of tension between locals and suspected herders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Terror struck Tse Yange, a Tiv community in Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, late Sunday night, as suspected herdsmen launched a deadly assault on the village. The attackers, reportedly on motorbikes, stormed the farming settlement under the cover of darkness, killing the village head and abducting several residents. The violence, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":68176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-68175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68177,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68175\/revisions\/68177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}