{"id":68929,"date":"2025-06-25T05:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68929"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:47:06","slug":"security-operatives-launch-manhunt-for-fleeing-robbers-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/25\/security-operatives-launch-manhunt-for-fleeing-robbers-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Operatives Launch Manhunt for Fleeing Robbers in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has launched a manhunt for armed robbers who attempted to carry out a robbery attack in the Apo Resettlement area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released on Tuesday by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, the operation followed a distress call from a commercial motorcyclist reporting sporadic gunfire in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Responding swiftly, the Divisional Police Officer of Apo Division, CSP Uchenna Igwebuike, mobilized the Ambush and Surveillance Teams to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers reportedly engaged the operatives in a fierce gun battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a tactical move, a reinforcement team led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, DCP Isyaku Sharu, arrived at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The superior firepower from police operatives forced the criminals to retreat and flee into the surrounding hills,\u201d the statement noted.<\/p>\n<p>Three victims with varying degrees of injuries were rescued during the operation and rushed to Sahad Hospital in Apo Resettlement for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, one of the victims later died from gunshot wounds and his remains were deposited in the hospital morgue.<\/p>\n<p>A light green Toyota Corolla with registration number GWA 620 AU, reportedly belonging to one of the victims, was recovered from the scene of the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Benneth C. Igweh, extended condolences to the family of the deceased and assured residents that the Command remains committed to ensuring the safety of lives and property within the Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a joint manhunt involving police operatives and local vigilantes is underway to apprehend the fleeing suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command has launched a manhunt for armed robbers who attempted to carry out a robbery attack in the Apo Resettlement area of Abuja. According to a statement released on Tuesday by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, the operation followed a distress call from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":68930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68929","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=68929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68931,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68929\/revisions\/68931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}