{"id":76996,"date":"2025-10-21T06:03:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76996"},"modified":"2025-10-21T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:03:28","slug":"mob-attacks-two-suspected-thieves-over-stolen-melon-in-abaji-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/21\/mob-attacks-two-suspected-thieves-over-stolen-melon-in-abaji-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Mob Attacks Two Suspected Thieves Over Stolen Melon in Abaji Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two suspected hoodlums were beaten by a mob on Monday for allegedly stealing a bag of melon seeds at the Abaji main market in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness, Adamu Usman, said the suspects, who posed as touts, attempted to steal a trader\u2019s bag of melon after hiding it within the market. They were caught when another trader noticed their suspicious movement and raised the alarm.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vigilante group intervened, the mob had already descended on the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>A vigilante member, Ibrahim Bala, said the stolen goods were recovered and the suspects were later released after the owner pleaded for mercy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Two suspected hoodlums were beaten by a mob on Monday for allegedly stealing a bag of melon seeds at the Abaji main market in the FCT. An eyewitness, Adamu Usman, said the suspects, who posed as touts, attempted to steal a trader\u2019s bag of melon after hiding it within the market. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":76997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996","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=76996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76998,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76996\/revisions\/76998"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}