{"id":41772,"date":"2018-01-03T21:14:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41772"},"modified":"2018-01-03T21:14:03","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:14:03","slug":"14-worshipers-killed-in-nigeria-mosque-blast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41772","title":{"rendered":"14 worshipers killed in Nigeria mosque blast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abuja, Jan. 3 (TNS):<\/strong> At least 14 worshippers were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on Nigeria&#8217;s border with Cameroon, France based news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to The suspected Boko Haram jihadist blew himself up amid worshippers inside the mosque in Gamboru shortly before morning prayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fourteen bodies have been pulled out of the rubble,&#8221; said Umar Kachalla, a civilian militiaman, who said the mosque had been completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only the muezzin has survived and we believe more bodies are buried under the debris,&#8221; said Kachalla. &#8220;The death toll may likely rise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An hour earlier, a patrol of vigilantes spotted four suspected suicide bombers on the outskirts of the town and arrested one of them after a chase, said a second vigilante, Shehu Mada.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two of them turned back and fled while the fourth disappeared into the darkness and we believe it was he who attacked the mosque,&#8221; Mada said.<\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram&#8217;s eight-year insurgency against the government of Nigeria has spilled into neighbouring Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing around 20 000 people and displacing more than 2.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>In August 2014, the group seized Gamboru, a trading hub along with neighbouring town of Ngala.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian troops retook both towns in September 2015 with the help of Chadian forces following months-long offensives.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recapture of the area, Boko Haram fighters continue to launch sporadic attacks, laying ambush on troops and vehicles as well as attacking and abducting farmers.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video message claiming a series of attacks in the northeast including those in Gamboru.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abuja, Jan. 3 (TNS): At least 14 worshippers were killed on Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a mosque on Nigeria&#8217;s border with Cameroon, France based news agency reported. According to The suspected Boko Haram jihadist blew himself up amid worshippers inside the mosque in Gamboru shortly before morning prayers. &#8220;Fourteen bodies have been pulled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2014,19],"tags":[2015,932],"class_list":["post-41772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja","category-world","tag-abuja","tag-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41774,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41772\/revisions\/41774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}