{"id":2809,"date":"2014-06-18T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2809"},"modified":"2014-06-18T10:17:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:17:08","slug":"several-people-killed-after-blast-at-nigeria-world-cup-tv-venue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/several-people-killed-after-blast-at-nigeria-world-cup-tv-venue\/","title":{"rendered":"Several people killed after blast at Nigeria World Cup TV venue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suicide bomber has killed several people in northern Nigeria&#8217;s Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup match, residents and medics say.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital worker told the BBC that truckloads of injured people are being treated in overcrowded wards.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The injured people are so numerous I cannot count them,&#8221; the worker said after the blast hit Damaturu town.<\/p>\n<p>An emergency has been declared in three states, including Yobe, amid attacks by suspected Boko Haram militants.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses say the suicide bomber in a tricycle taxi detonated the explosives as people watched Brazil&#8217;s match against Mexico. on Tuesday evening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-27896257\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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>A suicide bomber has killed several people in northern Nigeria&#8217;s Yobe state at a venue televising a World Cup match, residents and medics say. A hospital worker told the BBC that truckloads of injured people are being treated in overcrowded wards. &#8220;The injured people are so numerous I cannot count them,&#8221; the worker said after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,1054,355,379,1055,257,4687,393,254,361,1053,4692,1052,703],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blast-hit-damaturu-town","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-militants","tag-detonated-the-explosives","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suicide-bomber","tag-truckloads-of-injured-people","tag-west-africa","tag-world-cup-tv-venue","tag-yobe-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}