{"id":8739,"date":"2013-06-28T06:40:20","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T06:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/scores-killed-in-nigeria-ethnic-violence\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T06:42:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T06:42:51","slug":"scores-killed-in-nigeria-ethnic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/scores-killed-in-nigeria-ethnic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Scores Killed in Nigeria Ethnic Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{At least 48 people have been killed in ethnic violence in central Nigeria, a military spokesman has said.}}<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We now have a total of 48 dead from the attacks on three villages,&#8221; Captain Salisu Mustapha, spokesman for a military task force in the region, told reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the dead included 28 residents and 20 assailants killed by soldiers who responded to the violence on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Community leaders say the violence began after a spate of cattle thefts in Nigeria&#8217;s central Plateau state.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of people in Nigeria have been killed in similar violence since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{At least 48 people have been killed in ethnic violence in central Nigeria, a military spokesman has said.}} &#8220;We now have a total of 48 dead from the attacks on three villages,&#8221; Captain Salisu Mustapha, spokesman for a military task force in the region, told reporters on Friday. He said the dead included 28 residents [&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-8739","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\/8739","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=8739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8739"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}