{"id":168039,"date":"2025-07-02T13:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes"},"modified":"2025-07-02T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T13:56:37","slug":"police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes","title":{"rendered":"Police Manhunt for Killers of 10 Ebonyi Indigenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Police Command in Anambra has launched a manhunt for the suspected killers of 10 persons in Ogboji, Orumba-South Local Government Area of the state on June 30.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Awka.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Police Command in Anambra has condemned the indiscriminate shooting incident that resulted in fatal injuries and fatalities to 10 persons on the evening of June 30 at Ogboji, Orumba-South LGA of the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police have further assured that the Command shall hunt down the perpetrators and bring them to justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ikenga said that the armed criminals came in two Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and attacked the gathering of a group unprovoked, shooting sporadically.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman also said that the bodies of the victims have been deposited in the morgue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Police Command in Anambra has launched a manhunt for the suspected killers of 10 persons in Ogboji, Orumba-South Local Government Area of the state on June 30. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Awka. \u201cThe Police Command in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":168038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[35,1590,254,165],"class_list":["post-168039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-anambra","tag-ebonyi","tag-nigeria","tag-police"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Police Manhunt for Killers of 10 Ebonyi Indigenes - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Police Command in Anambra has launched a manhunt for the suspected killers of 10 persons in Ogboji, Orumba-South Loc ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police Manhunt for Killers of 10 Ebonyi Indigenes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Police Command in Anambra has launched a manhunt for the suspected killers of 10 persons in Ogboji, Orumba-South Loc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T12:46:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-02T13:56:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751452051.21559.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Police Manhunt for Killers of 10 Ebonyi Indigenes\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-02T12:46:59+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-02T13:56:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\"},\"wordCount\":157,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1751452051.21559.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Anambra\",\"Ebonyi\",\"Nigeria\",\"Police\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/police-manhunt-for-killers-of-10-ebonyi-indigenes\",\"name\":\"Police Manhunt for Killers of 10 Ebonyi Indigenes - 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