{"id":116965,"date":"2019-05-14T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116965"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:52:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:52:42","slug":"battalion-commander-two-others-killed-after-stepping-on-road-planted-explosive-in-borno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116965","title":{"rendered":"Battalion Commander, Two Others Killed After Stepping On Road Planted Explosive in Borno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Battalion-Commander-Two-Others-Killed-After-Stepping-On-Road-Planted-Explosive-in-Borno.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Battalion Commander of 145 Task Force has died alongside his driver and orderly. <\/p>\n<p>Military sources who spoke to SaharaReporters said &#8220;the incident happened on Monday at 9:30am after their vehicle stepped on a road planted improvised explosive device between Mauli and Borgozo&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Four other soldjier involved in the explosion where badly injured and one guy truck was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Borgozo where the incident occurred around Allargano forest south of Benisheik towards Damboa where there has been heavy Boko Haram fighting in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>The latest killing is coming few days after the federal government claimed it had confined the Islamic sect to the fringes of the Lake Chad.\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Battalion Commander of 145 Task Force has died alongside his driver and orderly. Military sources who spoke to SaharaReporters said &#8220;the incident happened on Monday at 9:30am after their vehicle stepped on a road planted improvised explosive device between Mauli and Borgozo&#8221;. Four other soldjier involved in the explosion where badly injured and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-116965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-boko-haram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}