{"id":80565,"date":"2021-05-09T19:07:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-09T18:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=80565"},"modified":"2021-05-09T19:07:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-09T18:07:05","slug":"truck-loaded-with-live-bullets-falls-spills-contents-in-onitsha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/truck-loaded-with-live-bullets-falls-spills-contents-in-onitsha\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck loaded with live bullets falls, spills contents in Onitsha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Onitsha residents are currently in fear, as a truck fully loaded with cartons of live bullets fell into a ditch and spilled its content all around the street, in the commercial city of Anambra State.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/\">Pointblanknews.com<\/a>\u00a0learnt that the incident occurred\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">on Sunday morning<\/a>\u00a0on Awka Road in the city as early worshipers made their way to churches.<\/p>\n<p>The incident attracted heavy security presence to the Awka Road area and Shoprite axis of the city.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was gathered that the truck, a Mercedes Benz 911 model was said to be moving the goods out of Onitsha to an undisclosed location when the driver lost control and the vehicle skidded off the road and fell into a gutter.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nAccording to an eyewitness who spoke to some journalists\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">around 6.50 am<\/a>\u00a0at the scene of the accident on Sunday, \u201cthe truck fell\u00a0<a dir=\"ltr\">around 5 am<\/a>, the driver and his conductor after sustaining minor injuries tried to evacuate and conceal the content of the truck but they could not do much before daybreak when some police operatives arrived the accident scene only to discover the truck was laden with a confinement of live bullets.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The police subsequently called for backup and instantly arrested the truck driver while his conductor escaped.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ikenganya Tochukwu, said he was not aware of the incident, but promised to get back to our correspondent after confirmation.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onitsha residents are currently in fear, as a truck fully loaded with cartons of live bullets fell into a ditch and spilled its content all around the street, in the&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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