{"id":4411,"date":"2024-06-30T18:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=4411"},"modified":"2024-06-30T18:30:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T12:45:22","slug":"nigeria-at-least-18-people-killed-48-others-injured-in-bomb-blasts-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/nigeria-at-least-18-people-killed-48-others-injured-in-bomb-blasts-in-borno\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: At least 18 people killed, 48 others injured in bomb blasts in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Bomb blasts in Nigeria&#8217;s northeast Borno state killed at least 18 people and injured 48 others, CNN reported, quoting the state&#8217;s emergency services.<\/p>\n<p>The first blast hit a wedding ceremony around 3 PM local time on Saturday, followed by another at General Hospital Gwoza and a third at a funeral, CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of the local state emergency management agency, the attacks were carried out by suspected suicide bombers.WION, citing a report by AFP, reported that a state police spokesperson said in one of the three blasts in Gwoza, a woman with a baby strapped to her back detonated explosives in the middle of a wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place around 3:45 PM local time when a &#8220;woman carrying a baby on her back detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) she had on her at a crowded motor park,&#8221; Borno State police spokesperson Nahum Kenneth Daso said.<\/p>\n<p>The female suicide bombers also targeted a hospital in the same town and carried out another attack at the funeral for victims of the wedding blast, WION reported, citing AFP.<br \/>\nBaekindo Saidu, Director General of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, confirmed 18 deaths, including children, adults, and pregnant women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The degree of injuries ranges from abdominal ruptures, skull fractures, and limb fractures,&#8221; Saidu said, as quoted by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>As per AFP, Saidu said 19 people who had been &#8220;seriously injured&#8221; were rushed to the regional capital Maiduguri, while 23 people are awaiting evacuation.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian town, which lies across the border from Cameroon, has been witnessing violence for more than a decade. Boko Haram had seized Gwoza in 2014, but it was retaken by the Nigerian military with help from Chadian forces the year after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomb blasts in Nigeria&#8217;s northeast Borno state killed at least 18 people and injured 48 others, CNN reported, quoting the state&#8217;s emergency services. The first blast hit a wedding ceremony around 3 PM local time on Saturday, followed by another at General Hospital Gwoza and a third at a funeral, CNN reported. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4411\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}