{"id":5316,"date":"2015-07-22T22:53:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5316"},"modified":"2015-07-22T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T22:53:23","slug":"about-60-killed-again-by-boko-haram-terrorists-in-gombe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=5316","title":{"rendered":"About 60 killed again by Boko Haram terrorists in Gombe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gas-explosion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5305\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gas-explosion.jpg\" alt=\"gas explosion\" width=\"259\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>About 60 people were feared dead in Gombe city, northeast Nigeria, on Wednesday after a series of bomb blasts ripped through two bus stations, a rescue worker and a witness told AFP.<br \/>\n\u201cSo far we have recovered 12 dead bodies,\u201d said the rescue worker at Dadin Kowa terminus, while a witness at the second in the Dukku area said: \u201cI counted up to 30 dead bodies at the scene.\u201d<br \/>\nThe Gombe state police confirmed only the first blast but did not give a death toll<\/p>\n<p>This is coming a week after twin blasts killed 50 people at the city\u2019s central market.<br \/>\nA\u00a0 high casualty figure was expected in Wednesday\u2019s attack.<br \/>\n\u200b<br \/>\nThe first two explosions occurred at a busy motor park.\u200b<br \/>\n\u200bThe blasts, suspected to be from Improvised Explosive Devices worn by suicide bombers, occurred at about 7p.m.<br \/>\n\u200bOur reporter said the \u200bexplosions took place \u200bminutes apart \u200binside Dadin Kowa motor \u200bpark\u200b.\u200b<br \/>\nThe third blast occurred nearly two hours after the first attacks, as residents searched through hospitals for their loved ones who may have been affected by the motor parks attacks.<br \/>\n\u200bLast week, explosions by suspected Boko Haram suicide bombers killed 50 people inside the town\u2019s main market last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 60 people were feared dead in Gombe city, northeast Nigeria, on Wednesday after a series of bomb blasts ripped through two bus stations, a rescue worker and a witness told AFP. \u201cSo far we have recovered 12 dead bodies,\u201d said the rescue worker at Dadin Kowa terminus, while a witness at the second in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,289],"class_list":["post-5316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-boko-haram","tag-gombe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/gas-explosion.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1nK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5317,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5316\/revisions\/5317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}