{"id":58280,"date":"2024-12-20T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=58280"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:23:13","slug":"boko-haram-deepens-stronghold-in-niger-kills-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/12\/20\/boko-haram-deepens-stronghold-in-niger-kills-three\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram Deepens Stronghold in Niger, Kills Three\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Boko Haram insurgents have intensified their grip on Niger State, killing three people and injuring four others in a series of improvised explosive device (IED), attacks in the Shiroro Local Government Area.<\/p>\n<p>In a chilling incident on Thursday, three siblings from Bassa village encountered an IED on their way to the farm.<\/p>\n<p>The blast left one sibling with an amputated leg and injured two others.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, a bread seller on a motorcycle was killed by another IED while trying to assist the injured, with a rescuer also sustaining injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgents, reportedly camping in the Maganda and Kugu axes of the Allawa forest reserve, have planted at least six explosives in the area since February.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks forced the military to withdraw troops from the Allawa garrison, leaving residents vulnerable to continued violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Allawa forest reserve links terror-stricken areas in Kaduna and Zamfara states, allowing insurgents to launch attacks on civilians, security personnel, and local vigilantes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite repeated alarms, including a 2021 warning of a Boko Haram flag hoisted in Kaure village, little progress has been made in curbing the group\u2019s activities.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts to reach the Niger State Commissioner for Homeland Security for comment yielded no response at press time.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, locals continue to live in fear as the insurgents tighten their grip on the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Boko Haram insurgents have intensified their grip on Niger State, killing three people and injuring four others in a series of improvised explosive device (IED), attacks in the Shiroro Local Government Area. In a chilling incident on Thursday, three siblings from Bassa village encountered an IED on their way to the farm. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":58281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58282,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58280\/revisions\/58282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}