{"id":79048,"date":"2025-11-20T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79048"},"modified":"2025-11-20T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:23:43","slug":"police-foil-kidnap-attempt-in-guto-village-kill-two-suspects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/20\/police-foil-kidnap-attempt-in-guto-village-kill-two-suspects\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Foil Kidnap Attempt in Guto Village, Kill Two Suspects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sarah Sam Adda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has foiled an attempted kidnapping in Guto Village, Bwari Area Council, killing two suspects during a gun duel that also claimed the life of a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said about 30 armed men attempted to break into a home in the early hours of Wednesday but were repelled by operatives from the Bwari Division Surveillance Team and the IGP Special Intervention Squad.<\/p>\n<p>The attackers opened fire on sighting the security teams, leading to an exchange during which two suspects were killed while others escaped into nearby bushes.<\/p>\n<p>Adeh confirmed that a police officer who sustained gunshot injuries later died at Bwari General Hospital. The Command described his death as a painful loss.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Miller Dantawaye, commended the operatives for their swift response and vowed to intensify security operations across the territory.<\/p>\n<p>He also urged residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sarah Sam Adda The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has foiled an attempted kidnapping in Guto Village, Bwari Area Council, killing two suspects during a gun duel that also claimed the life of a police officer. Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said about 30 armed men attempted to break into a home in the early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1724,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-insecurity","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79048","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=79048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79050,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79048\/revisions\/79050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}