{"id":6425,"date":"2015-10-16T03:13:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6425"},"modified":"2015-10-16T03:13:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-16T03:13:09","slug":"october-15-2015-masacre-boko-haram-kills-50-persons-in-maiduguri-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=6425","title":{"rendered":"October 15, 2015 Masacre: Boko Haram kills 50 persons in Maiduguri mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two deadly explosions on Thursday hit Maiduguri town as a suspected suicide bomber targeted a mosque in a suburb called Mulai leaving over 50 persons dead<br \/>\nThe sound of the explosions echoed over the Borno state capital at about 6:20pm.<br \/>\nA senior official of the Civilian JTF, said the two blasts happened near a mosque in Mulai, some 6 kilometres away from Maiduguri town along the Maiduguri-Biu highways.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have two bomb explosions this evening in Mulai near a mosque there\u201d, he said.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bombings happened during prayer time. One cannot immediately give details of the incident but I have sent my boys over there and am still waiting for their report from the scene.\u201d<br \/>\nAn other official of the Civilian JTF said \u201cthe blasts happened in a mosque during Magrib prayer and many people were killed, sadly. I have nine injured persons in our trucks now and I am heading for the hospital to get them treated because they <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bloodbath-in-Nigeria.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6224\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bloodbath-in-Nigeria.jpg\" alt=\"Bloodbath in Nigeria\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two deadly explosions on Thursday hit Maiduguri town as a suspected suicide bomber targeted a mosque in a suburb called Mulai leaving over 50 persons dead The sound of the explosions echoed over the Borno state capital at about 6:20pm. A senior official of the Civilian JTF, said the two blasts happened near a mosque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6224,"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":[802,920,919,274],"class_list":["post-6425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-borno-state","tag-civilian-jtf","tag-magrib-prayer","tag-maiduguri"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Bloodbath-in-Nigeria.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-1FD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425","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=6425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6426,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6425\/revisions\/6426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}