{"id":5844,"date":"2015-09-03T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5844"},"modified":"2015-09-03T13:14:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T11:14:21","slug":"boko-haram-insurgents-kill-100-villagers-in-ne-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/boko-haram-insurgents-kill-100-villagers-in-ne-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram insurgents kill 100 villagers in NE Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"section body_p_tags\">\n<p>Lagos (dpa) \u2013 At least 100 people were killed when suspected members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram attacked several villages in north-eastern Nigeria, a witness said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents drowned when trying to flee across the Gadabul River in Konduga local government area near the Borno State capital Maiduguri on Wednesday night, a resident of nearby Allakaramti village told dpa.<\/p>\n<p>An unknown number of women and children were abducted during the onslaught.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The attacks started at about 7.30 pm with heavy gun shots, forcing everybody to flee,&#8221; said witness Goni Dango. &#8220;Most drowned in the river, while a few others were shot by Boko Haram.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram, which seeks to establish a state with its very strict interpretation of Islamic law, has killed thousands of people since 2009 in similar attacks.<\/p>\n<p>DPA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/News\/Boko-Haram-suspects-kill-100-villagers-in-NE-Nigeria-20150903\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News24<\/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>Lagos (dpa) \u2013 At least 100 people were killed when suspected members of Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram attacked several villages in north-eastern Nigeria, a witness said on Thursday. Many residents drowned when trying to flee across the Gadabul River in Konduga local government area near the Borno State capital Maiduguri on Wednesday night, 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":[249,297],"tags":[258,256,4754,306,4737,355,413,4752,4756,4751,4753,2477,530,257,4687,393,254,4692,4755],"class_list":["post-5844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","category-west-africa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allakaramti-village","tag-attacks","tag-benin","tag-boko-haram","tag-borno-state","tag-gadabul-river","tag-goni-dango","tag-islamist-terrorist-group","tag-konduga","tag-lagos","tag-maiduguri","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west-africa","tag-women-and-children-abducted"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844","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=5844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5844\/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=5844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}