{"id":97488,"date":"2022-07-29T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=97488"},"modified":"2022-07-29T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T09:27:46","slug":"terrorists-attack-guards-brigade-soldiers-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/terrorists-attack-guards-brigade-soldiers-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists Attack Guards Brigade Soldiers Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terrorists suspected to be members of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) on Thursday night attacked soldiers of the Guards Brigade at the Zumu Rock, Madalla area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nThis is the second attack within 4 days on the seat of power targeted at the elite brigade responsible for the safety of Presidential Villa, military formations and other critical national assets housing top hierarchy of government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was learnt that Thursday night\u2019s attack occurred few minutes past 9pm at the 102 Guards Battalion along the Abuja\/Kaduna expressway.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The terrorists were said to have gunned down some of the soldiers on duty in an attempt to take over the barracks but were later overpowered as reinforcement troops were drafted from closest police, military formations.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hours before the attack, Nigerians on Twitter who reside in that axis raised alarm about heavy shooting around the Zuma Rock area with some alleging that criminals were kidnapping people.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nIt was learnt that all the barracks in the FCT are on red alert as the authorities have ordered soldiers to defend the city.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSources said the battle lasted over 30 minutes and caused gridlock.<\/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>Terrorists suspected to be members of the Islamic State West African Province (ISWAP) on Thursday night attacked soldiers of the Guards Brigade at the Zumu Rock, Madalla area of 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":96301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97488","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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