{"id":180034,"date":"2024-09-06T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-troops-battle-terrorists-in-borno-kaduna-kill-many-official\/"},"modified":"2024-09-06T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T09:03:05","slug":"nigerian-troops-battle-terrorists-in-borno-kaduna-kill-many-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-troops-battle-terrorists-in-borno-kaduna-kill-many-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Troops Battle Terrorists in Borno, Kaduna, Kill Many &#8211; Official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>In Borno, the terrorists were forced to abandon 24 hostages who were rescued by the troops after a fierce firefight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Nigerian Army says its troops, in coordination with other security agencies, killed some terrorists and apprehended a notorious arms courier linked to a wanted terrorist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Nigerian Army in a post on its official X Handle on Thursday, said the operation also led to the recovery of arms and ammunition, while several kidnapped victims were rescued and several terror suspects&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Borno, the terrorists were forced to abandon 24 hostages who were rescued by the troops after a fierce firefight. The Nigerian Army says its troops, in coordination with other security agencies, killed some terrorists and apprehended a notorious arms courier linked to a wanted terrorist. The Nigerian Army in a post on its official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180035,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,7887,375,3153,4266,257,393,482,5092,254,1775,8515],"class_list":["post-180034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-borno","tag-kaduna","tag-kill","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorists","tag-troops"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}