{"id":9166,"date":"2019-04-27T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=9166"},"modified":"2019-04-27T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T15:24:24","slug":"gunmen-kill-police-escort-driver-in-rivers-abduct-shell-staff-2-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-police-escort-driver-in-rivers-abduct-shell-staff-2-others","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill police escort, driver in Rivers, abduct Shell staff,  2 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>Suspected<\/b>\u00a0<strong>kidnappers terrorizing Ahoada, Ndele, Rumuji and\u00a0 Emohua axis of East West road, in Rivers State, have shot dead two drivers including a police\u00a0 escort driver, before abducting a senior staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Saturday Sun<\/i>\u00a0gathered that the escort driver identified as Corporal Peter Osagie, was in the escort convoy of the SPDC senior staff. The bandits struck at the boundary between Rumuji and Evekwu axis of East West road in Emohua Local Government Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A source, who is also a Shell police personnel, confirmed the incident to journalists, disclosing that\u00a0 the firm\u2019s senior staff was returning from Bayelsa State to Port Harcourt, at about 4pm, on Thursday,\u00a0 with his escort, when they were attacked around police check point located in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In a related development, there was another attack in the same axis of the road, where a Coastal bus driver was shot dead and two occupants whisked\u00a0 away by suspected kidnappers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">A man, Emma Jonah,\u00a0 who claimed to have witnessed the attack early yesterday, told\u00a0<i>Saturday Sun<\/i>\u00a0that the driver of the bus was shot dead after he denied the kidnappers access into the vehicle, as he allegedly pressed the lock of the bus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Nnamdi Omoni, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), has confirmed the attacked on the Shell personnel convoy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Omoni told\u00a0<i>Saturday Sun<\/i>\u00a0that police were on trail of the fleeing killers of the corporal.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_ad jeg_ad_article jnews_content_inline_2_ads  \">\n<div class=\"ads-wrapper align-left \">\n<div class=\"ads_code\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Suspected\u00a0kidnappers terrorizing Ahoada, Ndele, Rumuji and\u00a0 Emohua axis of East West road, in Rivers State, have shot dead two drivers including a police\u00a0 escort driver, before abducting a senior staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). Saturday Sun\u00a0gathered that the escort driver identified as Corporal Peter Osagie, was in the escort convoy of the SPDC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[277,351,165,605],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-kidnapping","tag-petroleum","tag-police","tag-ppro"],"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>Gunmen kill police escort, driver in Rivers, abduct Shell staff, 2 others - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/all-news\/gunmen-kill-police-escort-driver-in-rivers-abduct-shell-staff-2-others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gunmen kill police escort, driver in Rivers, abduct Shell staff, 2 others\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Suspected\u00a0kidnappers terrorizing Ahoada, Ndele, Rumuji and\u00a0 Emohua axis of East West road, in Rivers State, have shot dead two drivers including a police\u00a0 escort driver, before abducting a senior staff of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). 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