{"id":1409610,"date":"2022-03-30T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409610"},"modified":"2022-03-30T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:15:41","slug":"nigeria-terror-spree-targets-airport-trains-priests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nigeria-terror-spree-targets-airport-trains-priests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Terror Spree Targets Airport, Trains, Priests"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnigeria-terror-spree-targets-airport-trains-priests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1409610&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">North-central Nigeria has suffered from a spate of attacks by unidentified militants across the neighboring states of Kaduna and Niger and the national capital region of Abuja in recent days, with gunmen separately attacking an airport, major rail line, and Christian villages, local media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForty-eight hours after attacking the Kaduna airport, killing an aviation worker and injuring many others, terrorists, yesterday, escalated their attacks by bombing an Abuja-Kaduna train, with some 970 passengers onboard,\u201d Nigeria\u2019s <em>This Day<\/em> newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/48-hours-after-attacking-kaduna-airport-terrorists-blow-up-abuja-kaduna-train\/\">reported<\/a> on March 29.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Health workers at a Kaduna hospital treating survivors of Monday\u2019s doomed train trip told the BBC on Tuesday at least seven people were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-60914481\">killed<\/a> during the attack on the rail line, which runs from the central Nigerian capital of Abuja to the northern city of Kaduna. In addition, at least 22 people were injured in the incident, according to the same anonymous hospital sources.<\/p>\n<p>The train\u2019s attackers, whose identities remain unknown, \u201cused explosives to first blow up the rail track before opening fire on the train,\u201d according to Fidet Okhiria, the chief executive of the state-owned Nigerian Railway Corporation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people are also feared to have been abducted,\u201d he said on March 29, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/29\/world\/africa\/nigeria-train-gunmen.html\">quoted<\/a> by the Associated Press (AP).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Radical Islamists raided a town in northeast Nigeria near Lake Chad this week, killing three soldiers and taking hundreds of villagers as hostages. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/H79pZjcYf2\">https:\/\/t.co\/H79pZjcYf2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1297488883031080960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey bombed the track and started exchanging fire with the security inside the train,\u201d a survivor of the attack named Abdulwadud Ahmad told the AP. \u201cThey subdued the security, then came into the train and kidnapped a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo group has claimed responsibility for the attack but suspicion quickly fell on the armed groups who have carried out thousands of abductions and killings in the northwest and central states of the West African nation,\u201d the AP noted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The news agency referred to the actions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/boko-haram\/\">Boko Haram<\/a>, a jihadist organization based in northeastern Nigeria since 2009 that has terrorized the region since then through mass kidnappings and massacres. The group has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/12\/06\/report-boko-haram-isis-wing-funnels-43-million-year-through-nigerian-banks\/\">experienced<\/a> a resurgence over the past two years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theafricareport.com\/83757\/nigeria-on-high-alert-as-boko-haram-approaches-abuja\/\">crept<\/a> closer to the central Nigerian capital of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/africarenewal\/news\/boko-haram-violence-affront-humanity-ban-declares-reaffirms-un-support-nigerian-government\">Abuja<\/a> in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In the Munya region of Niger state, which borders both Kaduna state and Abuja, another attack on civilians by an unidentified group of gunmen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thisdaylive.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/terrorists-invade-niger-communities-kill-several-villagers-kidnap-catholic-priest-others\/\">occurred<\/a> on the night of March 27.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn unspecified number of villagers have been killed in several communities in the Munya Local Government Area of Niger State when terrorists invaded their villagers between Sunday afternoon [March 27] and early Monday morning [March 28],\u201d <em>This Day<\/em> reported on March 29.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn addition, the terrorists also kidnapped a catholic priest Reverend Leo Raphael Ozigi and some clergymen who ran into the gunmen as they were returning to Minna [village] after the Sunday mass held in one of the communities,\u201d the newspaper relayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North-central Nigeria has suffered from a spate of attacks by unidentified militants across the neighboring states of Kaduna and Niger and the national capital region of Abuja in recent days,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}