{"id":3646,"date":"2014-07-06T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-06T06:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3646"},"modified":"2014-07-06T13:58:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T06:58:53","slug":"nigeria-kills-suspected-boko-haram-fighters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-kills-suspected-boko-haram-fighters\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria kills suspected Boko Haram fighters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military is claiming to have killed dozens of Boko Haram fighters while repelling an attack on a military base in the northeast of the country<\/p>\n<p>The attack killed at least 53 fighters in Damboa, in the northeasterly Borno state.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Olukolade, Nigeria&#8217;s defence spokesman, said five soldiers and a senior military officer had also been killed in the exchange of fire on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Police blamed Boko Haram for the offensive after fighters attacked the base with rocket-propelled grenades.<\/p>\n<p>A security source said the raid was a revenge mission after dozens of fighters were killed in an air and ground attack on two of their camps in the Yejiwa and Alagarno areas&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/africa\/2014\/07\/nigeria-kills-suspected-boko-haram-fighters-201475205827230507.html\" 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military is claiming to have killed dozens of Boko Haram fighters while repelling an attack on a military base in the northeast of the country The attack killed at least 53 fighters in Damboa, in the northeasterly Borno state. Chris Olukolade, Nigeria&#8217;s defence spokesman, said five soldiers and a senior military officer had also [&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":[258,256,355,2185,413,2186,257,4687,393,254,4692],"class_list":["post-3646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-fighters","tag-borno-state","tag-damboa","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646","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=3646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3646\/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=3646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}