{"id":236666,"date":"2026-06-18T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-seven-kidnapped-victims-in-zamfara-foil-abduction-attempts-in-katsina\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T05:33:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T03:33:58","slug":"nigeria-troops-rescue-seven-kidnapped-victims-in-zamfara-foil-abduction-attempts-in-katsina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-seven-kidnapped-victims-in-zamfara-foil-abduction-attempts-in-katsina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Troops Rescue Seven Kidnapped Victims in Zamfara, Foil Abduction Attempts in Katsina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Troops of Sector 2, Operation Fansan Yamma, have rescued seven kidnapped victims and foiled coordinated abduction attempts across Katsina and Zamfara States during sustained counter-terrorism operations in the North-West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Military authorities said the operations were part of ongoing search-and-rescue efforts aimed at dismantling terrorist and bandit networks in the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to the Military Information Officer, Lt. Col. Aliyu Danja, troops carried out an offensive on June 16, 2026, in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606170566.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>Troops of Sector 2, Operation Fansan Yamma, have rescued seven kidnapped victims and foiled coordinated abduction attempts across Katsina and Zamfara States during sustained counter-terrorism operations in the North-West. Military authorities said the operations were part of ongoing search-and-rescue efforts aimed at dismantling terrorist and bandit networks in the region. According to the Military Information [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236667,"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":[4306,258,256,6613,7435,8042,476,257,4687,393,10904,254,8515,8402,23070],"class_list":["post-236666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abduction","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attempts","tag-foil","tag-katsina","tag-kidnapped","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rescue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops","tag-victims","tag-zamfara"],"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\/236666","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=236666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}