{"id":6619,"date":"2013-03-19T04:07:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T04:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-bus-station-blasts-kill-20\/"},"modified":"2013-03-19T04:05:52","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T04:05:52","slug":"nigeria-bus-station-blasts-kill-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-bus-station-blasts-kill-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Bus station Blasts Kill 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.}}<\/p>\n<p>Several buses were destroyed in the attack in the Sabon Gari district &#8211; which is home to many Christians from southern Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>No group has said it was behind the blasts but Islamist militants from the Boko Haram group have attacked Kano in the past.<\/p>\n<p>It is the largest city in the mainly Muslim north of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>One eyewitness told the BBC that he had seen 20 bodies after Monday&#8217;s blasts.<\/p>\n<p>Several witnesses told Reuters that one of the buses targeted was full when the explosion happened, and was completely destroyed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2204 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/er.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{At least 20 people have been killed in a series of explosions at a bus station in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.}} Several buses were destroyed in the attack in the Sabon Gari district &#8211; which is home to many Christians from southern Nigeria. No group has said it was behind the blasts but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}