{"id":55715,"date":"2022-02-03T00:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=55715"},"modified":"2022-02-03T00:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T00:21:19","slug":"benin-auchi-road-bandits-they-came-twice-they-operated-and-3-fell-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=55715","title":{"rendered":"Benin &#8211; Auchi Road Bandits: They came twice, they operated, and 3 fell (+Videos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The videos began trending early Wednesday showing passengers stranded as kidnappers engaged in a gun duel with security forces; but by the end of the day, another viralvideo emerged showing three of the bandits mowed down.<\/p>\n<p>It was at Okwo town on the Benin &#8211; Auchi road; and Edo State<span class=\"s1\"> Police Command\u2019s Spokesman, SP Kontongs Bello, confirmed that some suspected kidnappers were shot in Edo State on Wedneswere gunned down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s true, it happened yesterday [Tuesday] at 0620hrs, Okwo in Ehor area, but the combined team of the police and the military foiled the attempt, nobody was kidnapped, one person, a young man driving Lexus 350 was hit in his car in his shoulder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cToday (Wednesday), the hoodlums came out again and three of them gunned<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0down by the combined team of the police, military and vigilentee. Edo must be safe,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-55715-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220203-WA0000.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220203-WA0000.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220203-WA0000.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-55715-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"352\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220202-WA0015.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220202-WA0015.mp4\">https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/VID-20220202-WA0015.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The videos began trending early Wednesday showing passengers stranded as kidnappers engaged in a gun duel with security forces; but by the end of the day, another viralvideo emerged showing three of the bandits mowed down. It was at Okwo town on the Benin &#8211; Auchi road; and Edo State Police Command\u2019s Spokesman, SP Kontongs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1024,4419,4420],"class_list":["post-55715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized","tag-bandits","tag-benin-auchi","tag-travelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}