{"id":8747,"date":"2018-04-16T22:39:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8747"},"modified":"2018-04-16T22:39:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:39:17","slug":"german-abducted-police-escort-killed-in-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=8747","title":{"rendered":"German abducted, police escort killed in Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-body  xt-post-content\">\n<strong>Source: www.nan.ng<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Kano State police command said some unidentified gunmen on Monday in Kano killed a police escort and abducted a German engineer, identified as Mr. Michael Cremza.<br \/>\nThe Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Magaji Majiya, confirmed the incident in a statement in Kano.<br \/>\nHe said the gunmen trailed Cremza\u2019s car to Sabon Titi Madobi Road Kano, where they launched the attack. Cremza works for construction company, Dantata and Sawoe.<br \/>\nThe police spokesman said operatives of the command had already swung into action by cordoning off the area at the time the incident happened.<br \/>\nHe assured that the operatives would track down the culprits involved in the dastardly act.<br \/>\nHowever, a witness account said the gunmen who were five, were inside another motor vehicle when they opened fire on the vehicle conveying staff of Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company.<br \/>\n\u201cThe incident happened around 8:45am when people in the area were going out for work.<br \/>\n\u201cThe attackers killed one police Sgt attached to Special Protection Unit (SPU) on escort duty and abducted a German National, Mr Cremza working with the company\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThey shot the Police at Sabon Titi, a scarcely populated area in Kano, killing the Police and abducted the German, \u201cthe eyewitness who pleaded for an anonymity said.<br \/>\nA resident who witnessed the incident said he saw the abductors bundling the German into their car, while shooting in the air.<br \/>\n\u201cThey shot the policeman and fired shots into the sky. We began to run away,\u201d he said.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: www.nan.ng The Kano State police command said some unidentified gunmen on Monday in Kano killed a police escort and abducted a German engineer, identified as Mr. Michael Cremza. The Command\u2019s Public Relations Officer, SP Magaji Majiya, confirmed the incident in a statement in Kano. He said the gunmen trailed Cremza\u2019s car to Sabon Titi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","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=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}