{"id":4508,"date":"2014-07-28T17:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=4508"},"modified":"2014-07-28T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T10:36:13","slug":"five-dead-in-bombing-of-church-in-north-nigerias-kano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/five-dead-in-bombing-of-church-in-north-nigerias-kano\/","title":{"rendered":"Five dead in bombing of church in north Nigeria&#8217;s Kano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kano (AFP) &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s northern city of Kano, Nigeria on Sunday cancelled celebrations to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan after two bomb attacks blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram.<\/p>\n<p>At least five people were killed and eight were injured in a bomb attack on a Catholic church in a mainly Christian area of the city, the largest in Nigeria&#8217;s north, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The attack came shortly after the end of mass at the Saint Charles Catholic church, police spokesman Frank Mba told AFP&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Nigeria News\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/church-bombing-nigerias-kano-kills-five-144842293.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>Kano (AFP) &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s northern city of Kano, Nigeria on Sunday cancelled celebrations to mark the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan after two bomb attacks blamed on the Islamist group Boko Haram. At least five people were killed and eight were injured in a bomb attack on a Catholic church in a [&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":[258,256,355,1712,3275,2386,1529,357,2018,366,694,257,4687,393,3276,254,4692],"class_list":["post-4508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-bomb-attack","tag-bomb-attack-on-a-catholic-church","tag-catholic-church","tag-city-of-kano","tag-islamist","tag-islamist-group","tag-islamist-group-boko-haram","tag-kano","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-saint-charles-catholic-church","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508","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=4508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4508\/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=4508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}