{"id":80314,"date":"2025-12-16T06:39:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80314"},"modified":"2025-12-16T06:42:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:42:01","slug":"80314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/16\/80314\/","title":{"rendered":"FCT Police Engage Car Snatchers in Gun Duel, Recover Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command have engaged a four-man gang suspected to be car snatchers in a gun duel during an attempted vehicle theft in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Miller G. Dantawaye, disclosed this on Monday, stating that the incident occurred on Friday at about 7:42 p.m. at Efab Bridge during a routine stop-and-search operation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, operatives attached to the Galadimawa Division intercepted the suspects as they attempted to snatch two vehicles, a 2014 Hyundai Elantra with registration number DKA 776 FW and a 2008 Lexus Jeep with registration number KWL 530 BM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspects opened fire on the police, but the operatives responded tactically, applying superior firepower, which forced the criminals to abandon the vehicles and flee,\u201d Dantawaye said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that three vehicles, including the suspects\u2019 operational vehicle, a white Volkswagen were recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The police commissioner said investigations are ongoing to track and arrest the fleeing suspects, while reaffirming the command\u2019s commitment to safeguarding lives and property in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>He urged residents to remain vigilant and report suspicious activities to the nearest police station or through the FCT Police emergency lines: 08032003913 and 08028940883.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Idowu Operatives of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Police Command have engaged a four-man gang suspected to be car snatchers in a gun duel during an attempted vehicle theft in Abuja. The FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Miller G. Dantawaye, disclosed this on Monday, stating that the incident occurred on Friday at about 7:42 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80314","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\/80314","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=80314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80318,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80314\/revisions\/80318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}