{"id":11141,"date":"2024-01-09T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/eight-feared-dead-in-borno-landmine-explosion\/"},"modified":"2024-01-09T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T16:03:42","slug":"eight-feared-dead-in-borno-landmine-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/eight-feared-dead-in-borno-landmine-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight feared dead in Borno landmine explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>No fewer than eight persons have been reported dead with many others injured when two commercial vehicles stepped on landmines along Ngala-Dikwa road in Ngala Local Government Area of Borno State.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Trust reports that the incident occurred around 10:30 am around Kinewba village in Ngala about 15 kilometers away from Maiduguri.<\/p>\n<p>According the report, a security source said that the two vehicles involved in the incident were damaged beyond repairs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicles left Ngala around 900:am while the incident occurred about 15 kilometers away. Eight civilians feared dead including two children, and several others were critically wounded in the landmines blast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another source, a top civilian JTF, said the two vehicles, an Izuzu van and a lorry, stepped on the bomb and nearly all the passengers feared dead.<\/p>\n<p>Eight feared dead in Borno landmine explosion<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than eight persons have been reported dead with many others injured when two commercial vehicles stepped on landmines&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4968,8485,15],"tags":[3479,1610,180],"class_list":["post-11141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-borno","category-explosion","category-news","tag-borno","tag-explosion","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}