{"id":3228,"date":"2014-06-26T15:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2014-06-26T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T08:04:19","slug":"mysterious-snakes-and-bees-attack-boko-haram-in-sambisa-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/mysterious-snakes-and-bees-attack-boko-haram-in-sambisa-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious snakes and bees attack Boko Haram in Sambisa Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maiduguri &#8211; Some members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, arrested yesterday at Mairi ward behind University of Maiduguri by members of the Civilian JTF vigilante group, have confessed that most of them are fleeing the Sambisa Forest to areas across Borno State owing to what they believe is spiritual attacks from mysterious snakes and bees, which had killed many of their leaders.<\/p>\n<p>One of the arrested insurgents said, \u201cmost of us are fleeing because there are too many snakes and bees now in the forest. Once they bite, they disappear and the victims do not last for 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were told that the aggrieved people who had suffered from our deadly mission, including the ghosts of some of those we killed, are the ones turning into the snakes and bees.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cameroon News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cameroonjournal.com\/Mysterious%20snakes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maiduguri &#8211; Some members of the Islamist sect, Boko Haram, arrested yesterday at Mairi ward behind University of Maiduguri by members of the Civilian JTF vigilante group, have confessed that most of them are fleeing the Sambisa Forest to areas across Borno State owing to what they believe is spiritual attacks from mysterious snakes and [&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":[376,249],"tags":[258,256,355,413,4698,377,1722,1715,1718,530,1716,257,4687,393,1719,254,1720,1721,1717,4692],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno-state","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-ghosts-of-some-of-those-we-killed","tag-islamist-sect","tag-jtf-vigilante-group","tag-maiduguri","tag-mairi-ward","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sambisa-forest","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spiritual-attacks","tag-spiritual-attacks-from-mysterious-snakes-and-bees","tag-university-of-maiduguri","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","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=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/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=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}