{"id":74991,"date":"2025-09-05T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74991"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:25:56","slug":"panic-in-abuja-community-as-suspected-thieves-kill-commercial-cyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/05\/panic-in-abuja-community-as-suspected-thieves-kill-commercial-cyclist\/","title":{"rendered":"Panic in Abuja Community as Suspected Thieves Kill Commercial Cyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tension has gripped residents of Kilankwa village in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), after suspected thieves stabbed a commercial cyclist, Lawal Ibrahim, to death and made away with his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses said Ibrahim had picked up two passengers from Kwali market en route to Kilankwa when one of them pulled out a knife and stabbed him in the neck.<\/p>\n<p>The cyclist reportedly lost control and fell before the assailants fled with his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers returning from their farms later found him in a pool of blood and alerted local vigilantes, who rushed him to a hospital in Dabi.<\/p>\n<p>He, however, died shortly after arrival, and his remains were released to his relatives for burial.<\/p>\n<p>A vigilante member, Lazarus Isaac, confirmed that the victim was rescued alive but could not survive the injuries.<\/p>\n<p>A police source at the Kwali division also confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; Tension has gripped residents of Kilankwa village in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), after suspected thieves stabbed a commercial cyclist, Lawal Ibrahim, to death and made away with his motorcycle. Eyewitnesses said Ibrahim had picked up two passengers from Kwali market en route to Kilankwa when one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74991","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\/74991","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=74991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74993,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74991\/revisions\/74993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}