{"id":249257,"date":"2026-11-06T16:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-16-kidnapping-victims-recover-two-rifles-three-bombs-33-bikes\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T16:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T14:00:04","slug":"nigeria-troops-rescue-16-kidnapping-victims-recover-two-rifles-three-bombs-33-bikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-troops-rescue-16-kidnapping-victims-recover-two-rifles-three-bombs-33-bikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Troops Rescue 16 Kidnapping Victims, Recover Two Rifles, Three Bombs, 33 Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\"><em>The Army said troops ambushed suspected terrorists along a route in Kontagora LGA, recovering weapons, explosives and cash.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Troops of the<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HQNigerianArmy?lang=en\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nigerian Army<\/a><\/strong> have rescued 16 abductees and recovered two AK-47 rifles, three rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) bombs and 33 motorcycles during an operation in Niger State.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The operation was conducted on 5 November by troops of the Army&#8217;s 18 Brigade following intelligence about the movement of suspected terrorists from Mashegu Local Government Area towards Rijiyan&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611060363.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 Army said troops ambushed suspected terrorists along a route in Kontagora LGA, recovering weapons, explosives and cash. Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 16 abductees and recovered two AK-47 rifles, three rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) bombs and 33 motorcycles during an operation in Niger State. The operation was conducted on 5 November by troops [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":249258,"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":[258,256,31790,1929,1457,257,4687,393,11725,10904,14170,254,8515,8402],"class_list":["post-249257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bikes","tag-bombs","tag-kidnapping","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-recover","tag-rescue","tag-rifles","tag-south-africa-today","tag-troops","tag-victims"],"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\/249257","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=249257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}