{"id":80263,"date":"2025-12-15T07:36:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80263"},"modified":"2025-12-15T07:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T07:36:42","slug":"three-worshippers-stabbed-at-gwarinpa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/15\/three-worshippers-stabbed-at-gwarinpa-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Worshippers Stabbed at Gwarinpa Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three worshippers were stabbed to death early Monday morning at a mosque in Kado Bimko, 1st Avenue area of Gwarinpa District, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>A witness, Muhammad Auwal, said the attack occurred as worshippers gathered for early morning prayers. He identified the assailant as Laminde Boka, who was later apprehended and lynched by sympathisers.<\/p>\n<p>Auwal, who runs a kiosk near the mosque, said the first victim, an elderly man known as Alhaji Wanzam, was cleaning the mosque around 4 a.m. when he was stabbed.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then attacked a second man, a grinding machine operator from a nearby market, who reportedly died on the way to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He said the assailant chased others before stabbing a third victim to death on the spot. The suspect was subsequently beaten with stones and sticks by residents, leading to his death.<\/p>\n<p>According to Auwal, the remains of Alhaji Wanzam were taken to his hometown of Gezawa in Kano State, the second victim\u2019s body to Katsina State, while the third victim from Gombe State was taken to Kubwa General Hospital as his relatives could not be traced.<\/p>\n<p>The Village Head of Kado Bimko, Malam Ibrahim Isiaku, said the incident caused panic in the area, forcing people sheltering around the mosque to flee, while the mosque was temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p>He added that after a meeting involving mosque officials, market leaders and a nearby filling station manager, it was resolved that no one would henceforth be allowed to sleep on the mosque premises.<\/p>\n<p>As of the time of filing this report, the FCT Police Command had yet to issue an official statement, although a senior police officer confirmed the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Three worshippers were stabbed to death early Monday morning at a mosque in Kado Bimko, 1st Avenue area of Gwarinpa District, Abuja. A witness, Muhammad Auwal, said the attack occurred as worshippers gathered for early morning prayers. He identified the assailant as Laminde Boka, who was later apprehended and lynched by sympathisers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80263","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=80263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80265,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80263\/revisions\/80265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}