{"id":3049,"date":"2025-03-23T13:03:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pillartoday.ng\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2025-03-23T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T12:12:22","slug":"three-feared-dead-as-policeman-went-berserk-in-calabar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"Three Feared Dead As Policeman Went Berserk in Calabar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By <strong>Anietie Akpan<\/strong><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tragedy struck on Sunday morning in Calabar, Cross River state as a policeman suspected to be mentally unstable went berserk and shot three people dead.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, the area of the incident has been cordoned off and the police confirmed the incident saying the officer involved has been arrested .<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The incident occurred \u00a0at the Atakpaa Division police station by the popular Watt market and sources said the police officer had shown signs of mental health challenge in the station but was not confronted immediately as his colleagues were said to have been apprehensive.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">But suddenly, the sources said \u201che started shooting sporadically into the air. At that moment many of the policemen started running, with some scaling the fence over to the Yo.ruba line in the Watt market.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cWhen he stood up, he walked towards the road and then started shooting again. Three persons were hit by stray bullets,\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Police Public Relations Officer, \u00a0Irene Ugbo confirmed the incident saying , \u201cThe Inspector came from bit, and all of a sudden he started misbehaving. We don\u2019t know the cause of his irrational behaviour. He started shooting sporadically into the air, and telling people not to come near him.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cIn the process three people were hit. One woman is dead right now, two are in the hospital and in critical condition. The Inspector has been arrested. He\u2019s in our custody,\u201d.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile panic has gripped the entire Watt environment as some traders that sell by the roadside as the main market is usually opened on Sundays have disappeared with their wares while some were seen in clusters discussing the incident.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anietie Akpan Tragedy struck on Sunday morning in Calabar, Cross River state as a policeman suspected to be mentally unstable went berserk and shot three people dead. However, the area of the incident has been cordoned off and the police confirmed the incident saying the officer involved has been arrested . The incident occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2837,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}