{"id":3471,"date":"2014-03-03T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=3471"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T10:22:40","slug":"robbers-kill-2-policemen-in-attempt-to-steal-church-offering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=3471","title":{"rendered":"Robbers kill 2 policemen in attempt to steal church offering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/murder-knife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3477 alignright\" alt=\"murder-knife\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/murder-knife-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/murder-knife-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/murder-knife.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Dare-devil robbers, on Sunday,desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, at Ibadan in Nigeria after their failed attempts to steal the church\u2019s tithes and offering.<\/p>\n<p>Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken\u00a0 away by his gang members.<br \/>\nAccording to sources, the robbers, who were said to have mixed with the congregation, accosted a banker who is in charge of the collections, but the robbers miscalculated as nothing was found on him.<\/p>\n<p>Infuriated, the robbers reportedly shot in the air thereby causing commotion in the well attended church.<\/p>\n<p>When they missed their target, Vanguard gathered that the robbers, in annoyance, shot two police officers who were on guard in their van outside the church.<br \/>\nOf the three occupants of the police van, only the driver escaped the robbers\u2019 bullets.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the rampaging robbers tried to cover their tracks as they made attempts to destroy the monitoring gadgets.<br \/>\nThe Police Public Relations Officer,\u00a0 Oyo State Police Command, Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Olabisi Ilobanafor said the command lost two of its officers in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Vanguardngr.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dare-devil robbers, on Sunday,desecrated a church as they shot two policemen dead at the Vine Branch Church, at Ibadan in Nigeria after their failed attempts to steal the church\u2019s tithes and offering. Policemen were also said to have fired some fatal shots at one of the robbers who was reportedly taken\u00a0 away by his gang [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":3477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-3471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}