{"id":2059,"date":"2026-03-30T03:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2026-03-30T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T03:42:17","slug":"many-feared-dead-as-gunmen-launch-midnight-attack-in-plateau-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/2026\/03\/30\/many-feared-dead-as-gunmen-launch-midnight-attack-in-plateau-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Many feared dead as gunmen launch midnight attack in Plateau community"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many feared dead as gunmen launch midnight attack in Plateau community<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gunmen on Sunday night stormed Agwan Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing an unspecified number of residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyewitnesses disclosed that the attackers, who rode on motorcycles, invaded the community around 7:30 pm, while people were going about their normal businesses, firing bullets indiscriminately and causing panic among residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As at press time, the exact number of persons killed could not be ascertained, as residents were still trying to identify the victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eyewitnesses said the gunmen immediately fled the community after the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to reports, irate youths in the community have blocked the road, killing several Napep Riders and their passengers following the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Soldiers from Operation Enduring Peace were immediately deployed to the community to restore law and order and prevent escalation of the violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesperson for Operation Enduring Peace, Captain Polycap Oteh, stated that he would provide details of the incident after determining the cause of the attack.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many feared dead as gunmen launch midnight attack in Plateau community Gunmen on Sunday night stormed Agwan Rukuba community in Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State, killing an unspecified number of residents. Eyewitnesses disclosed that the attackers, who rode on motorcycles, invaded the community around 7:30 pm, while people were going about their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neptuneprime.com.ng\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}