{"id":30153,"date":"2016-11-09T01:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/gunmen-kill-36-nigerian-miners-in-zamfara-state\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T01:14:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:14:49","slug":"gunmen-kill-36-nigerian-miners-in-zamfara-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/gunmen-kill-36-nigerian-miners-in-zamfara-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kill 36 Nigerian miners in Zamfara state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunmen have killed 36 gold miners in north-east Nigeria, police say.}<\/p>\n<p>The attackers overran a mining camp in the Maru district of Zamfara state, in the latest in a series of similar raids in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The gunmen&#8217;s motive is unclear. Zamfara governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar called the attack an &#8220;act of terrorism&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In July Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari sent special military units to fight armed gangs in based in the forests of Zamfara.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people have been killed in villages in the area over the past three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Gunmen have killed 36 gold miners in north-east Nigeria, police say.} The attackers overran a mining camp in the Maru district of Zamfara state, in the latest in a series of similar raids in the region. The gunmen&#8217;s motive is unclear. Zamfara governor Abdulaziz Yari Abubakar called the attack an &#8220;act of terrorism&#8221;. In July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30153"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30153"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}