{"id":224842,"date":"2019-07-29T01:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=224842"},"modified":"2025-01-13T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T06:30:12","slug":"more-than-60-killed-in-extremist-attack-on-nigeria-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/29\/more-than-60-killed-in-extremist-attack-on-nigeria-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 60 killed in extremist attack on Nigeria villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_224843\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224843\" style=\"width: 2048px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-224843\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/10709372033_ba5f8db959_k-1024x678.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224843\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Taken on 31 October 2013 in Nigeria near Calabar (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jbdodane\/10709372033\/in\/photolist-hjmkcp-2hWwYk-nw88tB-hjj9GS-dxQH9v-dP6WYs-d8uCKQ-cVAhqo-nwYhi3-nimS9N-nyRZ7k-nfRoTn-nzd2zM-nfyx6a-nx2UsS-nx6PM3-nxrTkq-nx3AFa-nimiSH-nvhekj-nfTJRK-nzaVTF-nfKjYm-nfLycx-nzQzwc-nfwPdz-nx3pqo-nx6n4o-nxjqki-nx5yJB-nuZihw-nuXB11-nx6UUW-nzuVe4-nfMrwY-284k6QX-Dg7wz-nxh5Vu-eCeCMp-w8QFB-pSDt41-nxhtAa-4Pw5fm-8hsT8Z-Dg7qM-Dg7jW-xvcb9-pto8pd-JBmnG-4PwaxW\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jbdodane\/\">jbdodane\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc\/2.0\/\">CC BY-NC 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria \u2014 Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed more than 60 people in an attack on villagers leaving a funeral in northeastern Nigeria, a local official said Sunday. It was the deadliest extremist attack against civilians in the region this year.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy robaxin online <a href=\"https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html\">https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/robaxin.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Bulama, council chairman of the Nganzai local government area, told reporters that 11 other people were wounded during the attack at midday Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He called it a reprisal after villagers and civilian self-defence forces fought off a Boko Haram ambush in the area two weeks ago, killing 11 extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerians last week marked the grim 10-year anniversary of the Boko Haram insurgency, which has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and created one of the world&#8217;s largest humanitarian crises. The extremists are known for mass abductions of schoolgirls and putting young women and men into suicide vests for attacks on markets, mosques and other high-traffic areas.<\/p>\n<p>The extremists, who seek to impose a strict Islamic state in the region, have defied the claims of President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s administration over the years that the insurgency has been crushed. The violence also has spilled into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy spiriva inhaler online <a href=\"https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/spiriva-inhaler.html\">https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/spiriva-inhaler.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s military did not immediately comment on Saturday&#8217;s attack.<\/p>\n<p>Bunu Bukar, secretary of the Borno Hunters Association, a self-defence group, said the extremists roared up on Saturday on motorbikes and opened fire on villagers returning from offering funeral prayers for a relative.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy ozempic online <a href=\"https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ozempic.html\">https:\/\/achievephysiorehab.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/jpg\/ozempic.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> He said his colleagues had recovered nearly two dozen bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Bana Musa, who also serves on the local council, told The Associated Press that some people managed to escape the gunfire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria \u2014 Suspected Boko Haram extremists killed more than 60 people in an attack on villagers leaving a funeral &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":224843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","mauthors-ismail-alfa-abdulrahim","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283156,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224842\/revisions\/283156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}