{"id":95057,"date":"2022-05-18T17:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=95057"},"modified":"2022-05-18T17:20:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T16:20:56","slug":"gunmen-storm-ebonyi-council-chairman-house-kill-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/gunmen-storm-ebonyi-council-chairman-house-kill-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen Storm Ebonyi Council Chairman House, Kill Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Unknown Gunmen has on Tuesday attacked the country home of the Chairman of Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Steve Orogwu, killing his his security guard and three of his relatives.<\/p>\n<p>The hoodlums who stormed the house of the council chairman on Tuesday evening and met his absence, killed the four persons and burnt down his house.<\/p>\n<p>Reports says the council chairman was in Abakaliki town when the unknown gunmen stormed his house and caused the havoc.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the incident to Pointblanknews.com, Orogwu said in an emotional voice: \u201cThey attacked my house at night and killed my elder brother and two of his son\u2019s and our security guard\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Council boss also confirmed the razing of his family\u2019s house by the gunmen.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Heavy police presence and that of other security agents has helped to maintain normalcy in the area.<\/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>Unknown Gunmen has on Tuesday attacked the country home of the Chairman of Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, Steve Orogwu, killing his his security guard and three of&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":62912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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