{"id":34909,"date":"2017-06-01T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-policemen-killed-by-navy-in-calabar\/"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:41:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:41:53","slug":"nigeria-policemen-killed-by-navy-in-calabar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-policemen-killed-by-navy-in-calabar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria policemen &#8216;killed by navy&#8217; in Calabar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Three Nigerian police officers have reportedly been killed after clashes with members of the navy in the south-eastern city of Calabar.}<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear what sparked the clashes but a senior police officer told the BBC that a police station had been set on fire.<\/p>\n<p>One media report says that a policeman had confronted a navy officer for failing to stop at some traffic lights.<\/p>\n<p>The police and the navy have not officially commented on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Images of burned cars and building were shared on the Nigeria police Facebook page but they have since been removed.<\/p>\n<p>Another media report says that a navy officer who had been involved in a minor accident with a motorised rickshaw had been angered by the policeman&#8217;s behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly afterwards, a group of armed naval officers are said to have attacked and burnt down a local police station.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC&#8217;s Martin Patience in Lagos says the attack highlights the often lawless behaviour of the country&#8217;s defence forces.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20494 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_96292305_a8fbda4e-3b6a-487c-a36c-bf3751735b30.jpg\" alt=\"Navy officers are alleged to have set fire to a police station\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:BBC <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Three Nigerian police officers have reportedly been killed after clashes with members of the navy in the south-eastern city of Calabar.} It is unclear what sparked the clashes but a senior police officer told the BBC that a police station had been set on fire. One media report says that a policeman had confronted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}