{"id":9739,"date":"2022-07-29T08:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9739"},"modified":"2022-07-29T08:05:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T08:05:34","slug":"gunmen-attack-construction-site-at-owo-ondo-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9739","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Attack Construction Site At Owo, Ondo State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Two security men of a construction firm were injured on Wednesday when gunmen attacked the company\u2019s construction site in Owo, Ondo State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chief Adetunji Adeleye, Ondo State Commander of Amotekun Corps (the sub-regional security outfit in the southwest) confirmed the attack on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He stated that the gunmen shot sporadically into the air and damaged the windshields of two earthmovers at the site.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have just left the scene and I realised that the two security men were injured as the attackers shot into the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThey damaged the windshields of two earthmovers of the construction company. The injured men have been taken to a hospital,\u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Adeleye, also the Special Adviser to Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu on Security Matters, added that normalcy had since returned to the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Police in Ondo State also confirmed the attack on their verified Twitter handle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThere was a shooting at a construction site in Owo on Wednesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cPolicemen are currently at the scene; victims have been taken to hospital and they are in stable condition,\u2019\u2019 the police stated.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two security men of a construction firm were injured on Wednesday when gunmen attacked the company\u2019s construction site in Owo, Ondo State. Chief Adetunji Adeleye, Ondo State Commander of Amotekun Corps (the sub-regional security outfit in the southwest) confirmed the attack on Thursday. He stated that the gunmen shot sporadically into the air and damaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5529,1082,982,2028],"class_list":["post-9739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-construction-site","tag-gunmen","tag-ondo-state","tag-owo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739"}],"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=9739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9740,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9739\/revisions\/9740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}