{"id":340,"date":"2014-08-16T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T14:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=340"},"modified":"2014-08-16T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T14:21:34","slug":"two-armed-robbers-kidnappers-killed-in-police-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=340","title":{"rendered":"Two armed robbers, kidnappers killed in police shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police has said that no fewer than two suspected armed robbers and kidnappers\u00a0 lost their lives following an exchange of fire between a gang of hoodlums and operatives of the command along the Benin-Lagos road in Benin.<\/p>\n

In a statement issued by the Edo Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Noble Uwoh, the shoot-out occurred at about 5.44am on Friday, when the hoodlums emerged from their hideouts to unleash terror on commuters along Benin-Lagos road.<\/p>\n

Uwoh said that the police had been condoning and profiling the bush paths along the expressway to prevent any possible attack by the hoodlums.<\/p>\n

The PPRO recalled that \u201cdesperate dare-devil\u201d armed robbers and kidnappers numbering over 10 took the advantage of a heavy rainfall on\u00a0August 5, 2014\u00a0to rob commuters some metres away from Ogbemudia farm along Benin-Lagos road, where some victims were hurriedly kidnapped into a nearby forest.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the cross-exchange of firing, two of the criminals were fatally injured and their articles of trade such as two AK47 riffles, hundred and twenty four rounds of live ammunition of AK47, marine rope, face cap, face mask and SIM cards and four mobile phones were recovered from them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Uwoh, who explained that the injured suspects died while being rushed to the hospital for treatment, added that the cordoning and searching of the bush paths leading to the suspects hideouts and the immediate environs to arrest other fleeing suspects was in progress.<\/p>\n

While calling on the people of the state to avail the police with useful information, he said, \u201cIf you see something, say something and do something.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Edo State Command of the Nigeria Police has said that no fewer than two suspected armed robbers and kidnappers\u00a0 lost their lives following an exchange of fire between a gang of hoodlums and operatives of the command along the Benin-Lagos road in Benin. In a statement issued by the Edo Police Public Relations Officer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/police1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-5u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}