{"id":3227,"date":"2014-03-01T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3227"},"modified":"2014-03-01T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T02:00:45","slug":"witnesses-blasts-rock-crowded-market-many-feared-dead-in-birthplace-of-nigeria-terror-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/01\/witnesses-blasts-rock-crowded-market-many-feared-dead-in-birthplace-of-nigeria-terror-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnesses: Blasts rock crowded market, many feared dead in birthplace of Nigeria terror group"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr align=\"left\" width=\"90%\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_453872202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2670\" alt=\"shutterstock_45387220\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_453872202-300x194.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_453872202-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/shutterstock_453872202.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria &#8211; Witnesses say two explosions blasted a crowded marketplace in northeastern Maiduguri city, and many are feared killed and wounded in the birthplace of Nigeria&#8217;s Boko Haram terrorist network.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors say bloodied people are screaming for help and some people were blown apart.<\/p>\n<p>Trader Mallam Samaila said it appeared to be a car bomb in a pickup truck loaded with wood. He said the second explosion caught people trying to help those injured in the first blast.<\/p>\n<p>Smoke is billowing from buildings in the Bintu-Suga neighbourhood of the city&#8217;s Ngomari suburb.<\/p>\n<p>The first attack in months in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, follows an increasing number of ever-deadlier attacks in neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa states. More than 300 people have been killed this month in attacks in the northeastern Islamic uprising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; MAIDUGURI, Nigeria &#8211; Witnesses say two explosions blasted a crowded marketplace in northeastern Maiduguri city, and many are feared &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[450,690,691],"class_list":["post-3227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-af","tag-nigeria","tag-violence","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227","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=3227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}