{"id":3704,"date":"2014-07-07T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3704"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T02:21:26","slug":"nigerian-soldiers-killed-at-least-50-insurgents-that-stormed-military-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-soldiers-killed-at-least-50-insurgents-that-stormed-military-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian soldiers killed at least 50 insurgents that stormed military base"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria \u2014 Nigerian soldiers say they have killed at least 50 Boko Haram Islamic extremists who stormed a northeast Nigerian military base.<\/p>\n<p>The Defense Ministry said six soldiers including the commanding officer died while repelling the attack on the military base Friday, which witnesses say involved hundreds of extremists.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgents also attacked police station in Damboa, a town in Borno state&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/world\/nigeria-reports-killing-50-insurgents-stormed-military-base-article-1.1856559\" 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>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria \u2014 Nigerian soldiers say they have killed at least 50 Boko Haram Islamic extremists who stormed a northeast Nigerian military base. The Defense Ministry said six soldiers including the commanding officer died while repelling the attack on the military base Friday, which witnesses say involved hundreds of extremists. The insurgents also attacked police [&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":[258,256,355,2252,413,2186,836,257,4687,393,254,4692],"class_list":["post-3704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-boko-haram-islamic-extremists","tag-borno-state","tag-damboa","tag-islamic-extremists","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\/3704","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=3704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3704\/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=3704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}