{"id":90399,"date":"2024-06-29T21:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T21:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=90399"},"modified":"2024-06-29T21:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T21:47:10","slug":"suicide-bomber-spoils-wedding-celebration-killing-six-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=90399","title":{"rendered":"Suicide bomber spoils wedding celebration killing six in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">No fewer than six people have been killed with 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Gwoza, Borno.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Tragedy struck when the suicide bomber detonated an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, in Gwoza town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the attack occurred at a busy motor park known as Marrarraban Gwoza.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">An eyewitness who identified himself as Mr Buba, told NAN that the suicide bomber targeted a wedding ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Mr Buba said that the attack shattered the joy and celebration of the special day, leaving families and loved ones in mourning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Muhammed Kasim, another witness said that the attack happened around 1:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u201cWe heard a very loud sound of explosive, accompanied with dust; then we saw bodies on the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">He said that several victims were evacuated to the hospital while security agencies were deployed to sanitise the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\">Reported by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><b>NAN<\/b><\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_240629_224321_164.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No fewer than six people have been killed with 15 others injured in a suicide attack in Gwoza, Borno. Tragedy struck when the suicide bomber detonated an Improvised Explosive Device, IED, in Gwoza town. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the attack occurred at a busy motor park known as Marrarraban Gwoza. An eyewitness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":67610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5807,7],"tags":[6719,526,3404],"class_list":["post-90399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-crime-and-violence","category-news","tag-bomber","tag-borno","tag-wedding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90399","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=90399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}