{"id":85348,"date":"2017-01-16T04:24:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T09:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85348"},"modified":"2017-01-16T04:24:36","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T09:24:36","slug":"nigerias-northeastern-university-of-maiduguri-kill-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/16\/nigerias-northeastern-university-of-maiduguri-kill-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s northeastern University of Maiduguri kill 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_85349\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85349\" style=\"width: 779px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/779px-Nigeria_location_map.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85349\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/779px-Nigeria_location_map.svg_.png\" alt=\"Bomb blasts at Nigeria's Maiduguri University kill 5  (Photo: Uwe Dedering at German Wikipedia [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html), CC BY 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/3.0) or CC BY-SA 3.0 de)\" width=\"779\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/779px-Nigeria_location_map.svg_.png 779w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/779px-Nigeria_location_map.svg_-300x231.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/779px-Nigeria_location_map.svg_-768x591.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 779px) 100vw, 779px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85349\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bomb blasts at Nigeria&#8217;s Maiduguri University kill 5<br \/>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ANigeria_location_map.svg\">Uwe Dedering at German Wikipedia [GFDL (http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/copyleft\/fdl.html), CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria\u2014Witnesses say two bombs have exploded at Nigeria&#8217;s northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing five people.<\/p>\n<p>One student said the first blast ripped through the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and many are feared among the victims. A university worker said the second bomb went off at an entrance gate. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesman Victor Isuku confirmed Monday&#8217;s explosions but said rescuers are still ferrying the wounded to hospitals and evacuating bodies, making it difficult to give a toll.<\/p>\n<p>Maiduguri has been attacked many times but this is the first attack on the university blamed on Boko Haram\u2014the Islamic extremist group whose name means &#8220;Western education is sinful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 7-year-old Islamic uprising has killed more than 20,000 people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MAIDUGURI, Nigeria\u2014Witnesses say two bombs have exploded at Nigeria&#8217;s northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing five people. One student said the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[13674,13675],"class_list":["post-85348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-university-of-maiduguri","tag-victor-isuku","mauthors-haruna-umar","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}