{"id":6422,"date":"2022-02-10T18:23:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6422"},"modified":"2022-02-10T18:23:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T18:23:19","slug":"tragedy-gunmen-kill-three-policemen-at-enugu-checkpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=6422","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy: Gunmen Kill Three Policemen At Enugu Checkpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">There is palpable tension in the Enugu metropolis on Thursday afternoon as gunmen killed three policemen at a checkpoint in Enugu State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The incident was said to have happened around 1:20 pm at a police checkpoint near Ulumalinda Estate by Maryland suburb of the Enugu South Local Government Area of the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The gunmen were said to have kidnapped a woman along the road after the operation which eyewitnesses told our correspondent that lasted for about 30 minutes without challenge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">An eyewitness told our correspondent that the hoodlums robbed a POS mobile money operator after a stray bullet hit her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">When contacted, the police public relations officer, Daniel Ndukwe, confirmed the incident but didn\u2019t provide details.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He simply said, \u201cdetails are sketchy but a manhunt has been launched for the attackers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is palpable tension in the Enugu metropolis on Thursday afternoon as gunmen killed three policemen at a checkpoint in Enugu State. The incident was said to have happened around 1:20 pm at a police checkpoint near Ulumalinda Estate by Maryland suburb of the Enugu South Local Government Area of the state. The gunmen were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3827,738,1082,1199,3589],"class_list":["post-6422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-checkpoint","tag-enugu","tag-gunmen","tag-policemen","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6422\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}