{"id":15338,"date":"2019-02-13T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15338"},"modified":"2019-02-13T21:23:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T21:23:45","slug":"three-killed-as-boko-haram-attacks-borno-governors-convoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=15338","title":{"rendered":"Three killed as Boko Haram attacks Borno Governor&#8217;s convoy, others missing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram fighters opened fire on Governor Kashim Shettima\u2019s convoy, killing at least three persons, while some others in the convoy were unaccounted for.<br \/>\nThe missing were said to have fled into the surr\u00f2unding bushes and were being expected to return, if all goes well, a source said.<br \/>\nThe Borno state governor, according to a news agency report was on his way to a rally ahead of the presidential election, official sources said.<br \/>\nThe identity of the gunmen was not immediately clear, but the sources said they suspected it must have been the Islamist group that carried out the attack.<br \/>\nThey said the gunmen opened fire at the motorcade transporting the governor on Tuesday on his way from state capital Maiduguri to the market town of Gamboru for a rally.<br \/>\nTwo security sources who spoke to Reuters said at least three people died in the attack.<br \/>\nA government and a separate security source said as many as 10 people were killed during the attack.<br \/>\nAt the time of filing this report, the governor\u2019s spokesman could not be reached for comments.<br \/>\nAdditional reports by <strong>Reuters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boko Haram fighters opened fire on Governor Kashim Shettima\u2019s convoy, killing at least three persons, while some others in the convoy were unaccounted for. The missing were said to have fled into the surr\u00f2unding bushes and were being expected to return, if all goes well, a source said. The Borno state governor, according to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":13619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}