{"id":9160,"date":"2020-05-21T14:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/9160-boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-village-killing-20\/"},"modified":"2020-05-21T14:07:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:07:40","slug":"boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-village-killing-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/9160-boko-haram-attacks-nigerian-village-killing-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram attacks Nigerian village, killing 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram terrorists stormed a village just as people were preparing to break their Ramadan fast after sundown, killing at least 20 people in the first attack of its kind in northeastern Nigeria since<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>Boko Haram terrorists stormed a village just as people were preparing to break their Ramadan fast after sundown, killing at least 20 people in the first attack of its kind in northeastern Nigeria since the Muslim holy month began, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said fighters from the extremist group Boko Haram carried out the attack in Gajigana, where they entered the opposite side of the village from where Nigerian soldiers were posted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe shootings were sudden and intense; people began to flee in all directions,\u201d said Ba\u2019an Bukar, a member of a local civilian defense group.<\/p>\n<p>Audu Mustapha, a member of the Borno state House of Assembly, said 25 others were wounded in the attack about 47 kilometers (29 miles) north of the state capital, Maiduguri. Boko Haram has now been waging its insurgency for more than a decade in northeastern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Their rebellion has claimed more than 20,000 lives and left more than 7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram terrorists stormed a village just as people were preparing to break their Ramadan fast after sundown, killing at least 20 people in the first attack of its kind in northeastern Nigeria since Boko Haram terrorists stormed a village just as people were preparing to break their Ramadan fast after sundown, killing at least &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20922,"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":[497,159,1239],"class_list":["post-9160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-attacks","tag-boko-haram","tag-nigerian"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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