{"id":1162035,"date":"2022-07-29T11:48:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/bandits-attack-military-checkpoint-on-abuja-kaduna-highway\/"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:48:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T11:48:22","slug":"bandits-attack-military-checkpoint-on-abuja-kaduna-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/29\/bandits-attack-military-checkpoint-on-abuja-kaduna-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandits \u2018Attack\u2019 Military Checkpoint On Abuja-Kaduna Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Gunmen1-1-640x360-1-600x338.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Bandits on Thursday evening reportedly engaged the military in a gun duel at a checkpoint in Zuma Rock Madalla, along the Kaduna-Abuja highway.<\/p>\n<p>It is not yet clear if there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<p>According to several sources, the incident led to a gridlock on the highway.<\/p>\n<p>An eyewitness told Channels Television the attack started at about 8pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO:&nbsp;Bandits Kidnap Two Catholic Priests In Kaduna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The police and military authorities were not immediately available to respond to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>This latest attack on a military installation comes days after bandits attacked a unit of the presidential brigade guards, killing at least three soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandits on Thursday evening reportedly engaged the military in a gun duel at a checkpoint in Zuma Rock Madalla, along the Kaduna-Abuja highway. It is not yet clear if there were any casualties. According to several sources, the incident led to a gridlock on the highway. An eyewitness told Channels Television the attack started at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1059810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162035","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\/1162035","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=1162035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}