{"id":199324,"date":"2025-06-02T07:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boko-haram-explosives-kill-9-passengers-in-borno\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T05:26:51","slug":"nigeria-boko-haram-explosives-kill-9-passengers-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-boko-haram-explosives-kill-9-passengers-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Boko Haram Explosives Kill 9 Passengers in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>At least nine passengers have been killed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Boko Haram terrorists at Mairari village in Guzamala Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Mairari village is located about 18km from Monguno LGA and 119km away from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Our correspondant gathered that the incident happened at a local bus stop, leaving other victims injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Speaker of the Borno State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Abdulkarim Lawan, who confirmed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020029.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>At least nine passengers have been killed by Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) planted by Boko Haram terrorists at Mairari village in Guzamala Local Government Area (LGA) of Borno State. Mairari village is located about 18km from Monguno LGA and 119km away from Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Our correspondant gathered that the incident happened at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4264,375,904,4265,4266,257,4687,393,7833,254],"class_list":["post-199324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko","tag-borno","tag-explosives","tag-haram","tag-kill","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-passengers","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/199324","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=199324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}