{"id":42242,"date":"2026-08-12T10:44:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42242"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T09:30:27","slug":"ten-officers-17-suspected-bandits-killed-in-clash-in-kebbi-state-nigeria-police","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ten-officers-17-suspected-bandits-killed-in-clash-in-kebbi-state-nigeria-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten officers, 17 suspected bandits killed in clash in Kebbi state: Nigeria Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten Nigerian \u200bpolice officers were killed \u200cand two wounded in a clash with a gang of \u200bsuspected bandits in northwestern \u200bKebbi state, police said on \u2060Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The clash on Monday is \u200bthe latest incident in \u200bNigeria&#8217;s northwest, where heavily armed gangs known locally as bandits frequently carry \u200bout killings, kidnappings for \u200bransom, and cattle theft despite security \u200coperations.<\/p>\n<p>Police \u2060Spokesperson Ani Iniedu said officers killed at least 17 of the attackers after intercepting \u200bthe \u200bheavily \u2060armed group moving between Zamfara and Kebbi states.<\/p>\n<p>Iniedu \u200bsaid reinforcements had \u200bbeen \u2060deployed to the area, which was now under control, as \u2060security \u200bforces pursued fleeing \u200bsuspects.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14609,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-42242","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Iniedu \u200bsaid reinforcements had \u200bbeen \u2060deployed to the area, which was now under control.","published_date":"","news_description":"Iniedu \u200bsaid reinforcements had \u200bbeen \u2060deployed to the area, which was now under control.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42255,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42242\/revisions\/42255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=42242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}