{"id":237495,"date":"2026-06-26T17:51:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-53-hostages-foil-terrorists-attack-in-borno\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T17:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T15:51:30","slug":"nigeria-troops-rescue-53-hostages-foil-terrorists-attack-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-53-hostages-foil-terrorists-attack-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Troops Rescue 53 Hostages, Foil Terrorists&#8217; Attack in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The troops of Operation HADIN KAI have rescued 53 after dismantling a roadblock mounted by suspected Boko Haram\/ISWAP terrorists on Buratai-Kamuya road in the Biu Local Government Area of Borno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Military Information Officer in the Headquarters of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation HADIN KAI, Captain Mohammed Goni on Friday in Maiduguri.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Goni said that the operation was carried out on Wednesday by troops of the 135 Special Forces&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260310.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>The troops of Operation HADIN KAI have rescued 53 after dismantling a roadblock mounted by suspected Boko Haram\/ISWAP terrorists on Buratai-Kamuya road in the Biu Local Government Area of Borno. This is contained in a statement issued by the Acting Military Information Officer in the Headquarters of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation HADIN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237496,"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":[258,256,1398,375,7435,272,257,4687,393,10904,254,1775,8515],"class_list":["post-237495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-borno","tag-foil","tag-hostages","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-rescue","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terrorists","tag-troops"],"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\/237495","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=237495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}