{"id":79532,"date":"2025-12-02T05:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79532"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:01:14","slug":"police-foil-planned-attack-kill-three-suspected-kidnappers-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/02\/police-foil-planned-attack-kill-three-suspected-kidnappers-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Foil Planned Attack, Kill Three Suspected Kidnappers in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command says its operatives have killed three suspected kidnappers during a 30-minute gun battle in the Kwali area of Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Monday, FCT Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said the operation followed credible intelligence about a planned large-scale kidnapping attack scheduled for December 1.<\/p>\n<p>A key suspect, Sani Mohammed Umar (a.k.a. Boko), was first arrested and allegedly confessed that his gang was waiting at Gada Biyu Hills to begin the operation.<\/p>\n<p>When officers moved to the location, the suspects opened fire, leading to a shootout in which three were killed while others fled with injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Recovered items include three AK-47 rifles, three magazines, and 33 rounds of live ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>A joint police-military operation is ongoing to track the fleeing gang members, while hospitals have been advised to report anyone with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner of Police praised the Anti-Kidnapping Unit for its swift response and urged residents to remain vigilant and continue providing timely intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command says its operatives have killed three suspected kidnappers during a 30-minute gun battle in the Kwali area of Abuja. In a statement on Monday, FCT Police spokesperson Josephine Adeh said the operation followed credible intelligence about a planned large-scale kidnapping attack scheduled for December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79532","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=79532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79534,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79532\/revisions\/79534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}