{"id":77942,"date":"2025-11-03T12:38:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77942"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:38:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:38:58","slug":"police-rescue-six-kidnap-victims-after-gun-battle-in-kebbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/03\/police-rescue-six-kidnap-victims-after-gun-battle-in-kebbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue Six Kidnap Victims After Gun Battle in Kebbi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Kebbi State Police Command has rescued six kidnapped victims unhurt following a gun battle with bandits in Donko, Danko\/Wasagu Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson, CSP Nafiu Abubakar, said the operation took place on Saturday, November 2, after about a dozen bandits invaded Ukuhu, Tungar Wazga, and Unguwar Chiroma villages, abducting ten residents.<\/p>\n<p>Acting on intelligence, a team of policemen and local vigilantes intercepted the kidnappers near the Zamfara border and engaged them in a fierce shootout, forcing the hoodlums to flee and abandon six captives.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, all from the Magawata and Ukuhu families, have been reunited with their relatives after medical checks.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner of Police, CP Bello Sani, commended the officers for their bravery and reaffirmed the Command\u2019s commitment to safeguarding lives and property.<\/p>\n<p>Search efforts continue to free the remaining victims and apprehend the fleeing suspects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; The Kebbi State Police Command has rescued six kidnapped victims unhurt following a gun battle with bandits in Donko, Danko\/Wasagu Local Government Area. Police spokesperson, CSP Nafiu Abubakar, said the operation took place on Saturday, November 2, after about a dozen bandits invaded Ukuhu, Tungar Wazga, and Unguwar Chiroma villages, abducting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77942","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=77942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77945,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77942\/revisions\/77945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}