{"id":59298,"date":"2018-11-07T13:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59298"},"modified":"2018-11-07T13:12:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T12:12:05","slug":"boko-haram-kills-some-soldiers-injures-an-officer-in-raid-on-borno-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59298","title":{"rendered":"Boko Haram &#8216;Kills&#8217; Some Soldiers, &#8216;Injures&#8217; An Officer In Raid On Borno Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-file_info=\"%7B%22fid%22:%2267041%22,%22view_mode%22:%22embedded%22,%22fields%22:%7B%22format%22:%22full%22,%22field_file_image_title_text%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_file_image_caption%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_attribution%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22%22,%22field_align%5Bund%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%22:%22center%22%7D,%22type%22:%22media%22,%22link_text%22:null%7D\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boko-Haram-Kills-Some-Soldiers-Injures-An-Officer-In-Raid-On-Borno-Town.jpg\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\"><br \/>\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>Many were killed and items looted when suspected Boko Haram members attacked the ancient town of Kukawa in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday, a security source has told SaharaReporters.<\/p>\n<p>The attack, primary targeted at the military, was said to have resulted in the death of some soldiers and an officer.<\/p>\n<p>The insurgents stormed the remote town at about 5:30pm, shooting sporadically and killing an undisclosed number of soldiers and injuring an officer.<\/p>\n<p>The security source said the insurgents looted foodstuffs, emptied hospital store and carted away caches of ammunition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They killed some soldiers while others, including an officer, sustained gunshot wounds. It was a brutal attack; they came solely for our troops, not civilian,&#8221; said the source. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One armoured tank was burnt down and a hospital set ablaze. The terrorists told the residents not to panick; they even walked freely on streets and exchange pleasantries with some residents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When contacted, the Director of Army Public Relations, Brig Gen. Texas Chukwu, denied knowledge of the attack but promised to contact his men in Maiduguri.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many were killed and items looted when suspected Boko Haram members attacked the ancient town of Kukawa in Kukawa Local Government Area of Borno State on Monday, a security source has told SaharaReporters. The attack, primary targeted at the military, was said to have resulted in the death of some soldiers and an officer. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59299,"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":[3773,3],"tags":[37,4866,1949],"class_list":["post-59298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-boko-haram","tag-crime","tag-soldiers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59298","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=59298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}