{"id":59611,"date":"2024-06-30T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/06\/30\/suspected-female-suicide-bombers-kill-at-least-18-in-nigeria-authorities-say\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T08:02:56","slug":"suspected-female-suicide-bombers-kill-at-least-18-in-nigeria-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/suspected-female-suicide-bombers-kill-at-least-18-in-nigeria-authorities-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected female suicide bombers kill at least 18 in Nigeria, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were killed and 30 others injured after a series of attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria&#8217;s northeastern Borno state on Saturday, the head of the local state emergency management agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Borno is at the centre of a 15-year Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions more.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Nigerian military has degraded the capabilities of the militants, they still carry out deadly attacks against civilians and security targets.<\/p>\n<p>No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Borno state police were not immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram and its splinter group, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), are the most active militant groups in Borno, a large swathe of rural hinterland the size of Ireland.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people were killed and 30 others injured after a series of attacks by suspected female suicide bombers in Nigeria&#8217;s northeastern Borno state on Saturday, the head of the local state emergency management agency said. Borno is at the centre of a 15-year Islamist insurgency that has killed thousands of people and displaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}