{"id":78405,"date":"2025-11-09T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78405"},"modified":"2025-11-09T09:52:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T09:52:47","slug":"police-rescue-seven-kidnap-victims-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/09\/police-rescue-seven-kidnap-victims-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue Seven Kidnap Victims in Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>By Merciful Omoba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Edo State Police Command has rescued seven kidnapped victims in Ewohimi, Esan South-East Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Emem Ikoedem, said in a statement that the victims were abducted in the Ikeken Forest while on their way to the farm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Acting on a distress report, the Divisional Police Officer in Ewohimi led a joint team of police operatives, soldiers, and vigilantes in a swift rescue mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The kidnappers fled during the operation, leaving their captives unharmed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The rescued victims have since reunited with their families.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Commissioner of Police, Monday Agbonika, commended the security team\u2019s professionalism and assured that efforts are ongoing to apprehend the fleeing suspects.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Residents were urged to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities to the nearest police station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Merciful Omoba The Edo State Police Command has rescued seven kidnapped victims in Ewohimi, Esan South-East Local Government Area. Deputy Police Public Relations Officer, Emem Ikoedem, said in a statement that the victims were abducted in the Ikeken Forest while on their way to the farm. Acting on a distress report, the Divisional Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":78406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-78405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78405","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=78405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78407,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78405\/revisions\/78407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}