{"id":4383,"date":"2017-06-29T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4383-multiple-bomb-attacks-kill-16-in-northeastern-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:44:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T09:44:24","slug":"multiple-bomb-attacks-kill-16-in-northeastern-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/4383-multiple-bomb-attacks-kill-16-in-northeastern-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple bomb attacks kill 16 in northeastern Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian police say multiple bomb attacks have claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded more than a dozen others in the country\u2019s troubled northeast.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4>The Nigerian police say multiple bomb attacks have claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded more than a dozen others in the country\u2019s troubled northeast.<\/h4>\n<h4>Police said on Monday that seven bomb attacks were carried out by suspected members of the Boko Haram Takfiri terrorist group in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state.<\/h4>\n<h4>The explosions occurred at the University of Maiduguri and in the Jere area of the city on Sunday evening and Monday morning.<\/h4>\n<h4>Borno police sources noted that a male bomber killed a security guard after entering the university late on Sunday.<\/h4>\n<h4>Around an hour later, four female bombers killed eight people on the outskirts of the city in Zannari community, in the Gwange district of Jere local government authority after detonating devices in residential buildings.<\/h4>\n<h4>Two female bombers were the only people to die in two blasts at the university on Monday morning.<\/h4>\n<h4>Damian Chukwu, Borno police commissioner, confirmed that at least 16 people had been killed in the latest wave of violence hitting the region.<\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nigerian police say multiple bomb attacks have claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded more than a dozen others in the country\u2019s troubled northeast. \u00a0 The Nigerian police say multiple bomb attacks have claimed the lives of at least 16 people and wounded more than a dozen others in the country\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[497,276,670,67],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attacks","tag-bomb","tag-kill","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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