{"id":74773,"date":"2025-09-02T10:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74773"},"modified":"2025-09-02T10:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:30:08","slug":"robbers-kill-bolt-driver-snatch-vehicle-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/02\/robbers-kill-bolt-driver-snatch-vehicle-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Robbers Kill Bolt Driver, Snatch Vehicle in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Bolt driver was murdered on Tuesday night by suspected armed robbers who also made away with his vehicle along the Gwarimpa-Kubwa expressway.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a resident of Kagini community near the expressway, was reportedly stabbed in the neck and left critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to Kubwa General Hospital by a security patrol team but was pronounced dead shortly after arrival due to excessive blood loss, despite efforts by medical staff to resuscitate him through a blood transfusion.<\/p>\n<p>Family sources said the deceased, originally from Okene in Kogi State, was buried the following day in line with Islamic rites after his relatives recovered his body.<\/p>\n<p>A police source confirmed the incident, while the FCT Bolt Drivers\u2019 Association expressed deep concern over the increasing spate of violent attacks against drivers in the capital city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; A Bolt driver was murdered on Tuesday night by suspected armed robbers who also made away with his vehicle along the Gwarimpa-Kubwa expressway. The victim, a resident of Kagini community near the expressway, was reportedly stabbed in the neck and left critically injured. He was rushed to Kubwa General Hospital [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74773","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=74773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74775,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74773\/revisions\/74775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}