{"id":1152227,"date":"2022-07-18T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/bandits-gun-down-7-year-old-child-in-abuja-abduct-10-residents\/"},"modified":"2022-07-18T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:01:00","slug":"bandits-gun-down-7-year-old-child-in-abuja-abduct-10-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/18\/bandits-gun-down-7-year-old-child-in-abuja-abduct-10-residents\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits Gun Down 7-Year-Old Child In Abuja, Abduct 10 Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A seven year-old boy simply identified as Ayuba was killed when bandits struck at Paikon Basa community in Gurdi ward of Abaji Area Council of Abuja.<\/p>\n

A resident, James Gwatana, said bandits wielding sophisticated weapons invaded the community on Friday night.<\/p>\n

He said apart from the child who was killed, a man and his wife were also hit by stray bullets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn fact, the entire Paiko community was terrified because of the sound of gunshots of the bandits. It was as a result of the sporadic shooting that a 7-year-old boy was killed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the bandits abducted four residents and raided some shops where they carted away food stuffs.<\/p>\n

The district head of Gulida, Abubakar Sadauna, confirmed the incident to our reporter via telephone.<\/p>\n

He said the couple who were shot had been taken to a private hospital for treatment in Gwagwalada.<\/p>\n

\u201cI later received information over the weekend that two among the four kidnapped victims, later escaped from the abductors den,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He said the Yaba police division headquarters had been informed about the attack, adding that the police went to the scene and saw the corpse of the 7 year-old boy before it was buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A seven year-old boy simply identified as Ayuba was killed when bandits struck at Paikon Basa community in Gurdi ward of Abaji Area Council of Abuja. A resident, James Gwatana, said bandits wielding sophisticated weapons invaded the community on Friday night. He said apart from the child who was killed, a man and his wife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1152229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}