{"id":207045,"date":"2025-09-13T23:18:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-four-killed15-injured-as-gunmen-open-fire-at-burial-ceremony-in-anambra\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:18:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T21:18:04","slug":"nigeria-four-killed15-injured-as-gunmen-open-fire-at-burial-ceremony-in-anambra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-four-killed15-injured-as-gunmen-open-fire-at-burial-ceremony-in-anambra\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Four Killed,15 Injured As Gunmen Open Fire At Burial Ceremony in Anambra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><em>Like other parts of Nigeria, Anambra has witnessed several cult-related incidents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Some gunmen, suspected to be cultists, have killed at least four people in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/ck\/a?!&amp;&amp;p=1f2e50f0cff28553bd4893eb2cef7272bf8cd635641b9fec9b49990f030c018bJmltdHM9MTc1NzYzNTIwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=3bc8a371-1db4-68cf-1f4b-b6c71cf36915&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmFtYnJhc3RhdGUuZ292Lm5nLw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anambra State<\/a><\/strong>, south-east Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The incident occurred in the late hours of Thursday at a burial event in Ezi Village, Ogidi, a community in Idemili North Local Government Area of the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120450.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>Like other parts of Nigeria, Anambra has witnessed several cult-related incidents. Some gunmen, suspected to be cultists, have killed at least four people in Anambra State, south-east Nigeria. The incident occurred in the late hours of Thursday at a burial event in Ezi Village, Ogidi, a community in Idemili North Local Government Area of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207046,"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":[258,256,12904,10033,6358,6600,2107,6710,52331,257,4687,393,5983,254],"class_list":["post-207045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anambra","tag-burial","tag-ceremony","tag-fire","tag-gunmen","tag-injured","tag-killed15","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-open","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\/207045","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=207045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}