{"id":82990,"date":"2026-02-24T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82990"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:22:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:22:32","slug":"four-escape-death-as-vehicle-bursts-into-flames-near-abuja-barracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/02\/24\/four-escape-death-as-vehicle-bursts-into-flames-near-abuja-barracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Escape Death as Vehicle Bursts Into Flames Near Abuja Barracks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Four passengers narrowly escaped death on Monday night when their commercial vehicle caught fire opposite the Niger Barracks in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle, a Volkswagen Golf, was reportedly in motion when it was suddenly engulfed by flames.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitnesses at the scene suggested the blaze was likely triggered by a mechanical fault, specifically a spark originating from the car\u2019s battery.<\/p>\n<p>Amos, a dispatch rider who witnessed the incident, confirmed that the fire started while the vehicle was moving but noted that all occupants managed to exit safely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire started most likely with a spark from the battery,&#8221; he stated, adding that despite the intensity of the fire, no lives were lost in the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>Shocked commuters watched the vehicle burn to a shell, noting the absence of the car owner during the peak of the inferno.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of filing this report, neither the fire service nor military officials from the nearby barracks had arrived at the scene to manage the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Four passengers narrowly escaped death on Monday night when their commercial vehicle caught fire opposite the Niger Barracks in Abuja. The vehicle, a Volkswagen Golf, was reportedly in motion when it was suddenly engulfed by flames. Eyewitnesses at the scene suggested the blaze was likely triggered by a mechanical fault, specifically a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-82990","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\/82990","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=82990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82992,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82990\/revisions\/82992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}