{"id":81820,"date":"2026-01-18T11:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81820"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:14:56","slug":"assailants-kill-mother-six-children-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/18\/assailants-kill-mother-six-children-in-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Assailants Kill Mother, Six Children in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seven persons, including a 35-year-old woman and her six children, were killed on Saturday in a violent attack at Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Kano State.<\/p>\n<p>The victims, identified as Fatima Abubakar and her children, were attacked in their residence by unknown assailants who reportedly broke into the house and inflicted fatal injuries with dangerous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Abdullahi Kiyawa, said the command received a distress call around 12:10pm on January 17, reporting an attack on the household of one Haruna Bashir.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim Bakori, immediately deployed officers to the scene, led by the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, DCP Lawal Mani.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were rushed to Murtala Mohammed Specialist Hospital, where they were confirmed dead on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Kiyawa added that the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of the Criminal Investigation Department, ACP Wada Jarma, has been directed to lead a full investigation to apprehend those responsible.<\/p>\n<p>The police condoled with the bereaved family and residents, assuring that efforts are underway to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Seven persons, including a 35-year-old woman and her six children, were killed on Saturday in a violent attack at Dorayi Chiranchi Quarters, Kano State. The victims, identified as Fatima Abubakar and her children, were attacked in their residence by unknown assailants who reportedly broke into the house and inflicted fatal injuries with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-81820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81820","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=81820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81822,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81820\/revisions\/81822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}