{"id":182313,"date":"2020-01-07T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182313"},"modified":"2020-01-07T12:30:12","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T11:30:12","slug":"bomb-explosion-kills-9-injures-26-in-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=182313","title":{"rendered":"Bomb explosion kills 9, injures 26 in Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>At least nine people were killed and 26 injured after an explosion in northern Cameroun, local authorities have confirmed on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Monday in Fotokol, a town near the border with Nigeria, when \u201cyoung men in search of metals\u2019\u2019 stumbled on a homemade bomb before mistakenly detonating it, Regional Governor Midjiyawa Bakari confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, there were fears that the explosion was linked to the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram which poses a steady threat in Nigeria, but Bakari dismissed this after investigations proved otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>He said a group of people going to a market in Fotokol had all crossed the informal border bridge from Nigeria. The youngsters were attracted by the glint of metal, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of them realised the metal was dangerous and wanted to get rid of it, but the device exploded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose injured were receiving treatment at a local medical facility,\u2019\u2019 Bakari added.<\/p>\n<p>It has not been established who had planted the device or when it had been planted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least nine people were killed and 26 injured after an explosion in northern Cameroun, local authorities have confirmed on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday in Fotokol, a town near the border with Nigeria, when \u201cyoung men in search of metals\u2019\u2019 stumbled on a homemade bomb before mistakenly detonating it, Regional Governor Midjiyawa Bakari [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182314,"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":[3773,1,3],"tags":[2658,39,13182,4866,819],"class_list":["post-182313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-more","category-news","tag-a","tag-bomb","tag-bomb-explosion","tag-crime","tag-mali"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182313","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=182313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}