{"id":164972,"date":"2019-11-02T16:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164972"},"modified":"2019-11-02T16:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T15:09:55","slug":"53-soldiers-reportedly-killed-during-terrorist-attack-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=164972","title":{"rendered":"53 soldiers reportedly killed during terrorist attack in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/53-soldiers-reportedly-killed-during-terrorist-attack-in-Mali.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The death toll from a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on a military post in northeast Mali Friday has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five soldiers were killed on Friday in the attack on the spot in Indelimane, about 70 kilometres west of Menaka near the border with Niger, according to the army, which has dubbed the incident a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the attack has been underway, it added.<\/p>\n<p>By far, no group has claimed responsibility for the assault, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015, the West African country has suffered a spate of terrorist attacks that have killed over 500 people and displaced over 450,000 others.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from a \u201cterrorist attack\u201d on a military post in northeast Mali Friday has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said on Saturday. Thirty-five soldiers were killed on Friday in the attack on the spot in Indelimane, about 70 kilometres west of Menaka near the border with Niger, according to the army, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":164973,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[12807,819],"class_list":["post-164972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bamako","tag-mali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164972","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=164972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/164973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}