{"id":43978,"date":"2014-05-08T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_boko_haram_attack_kills_hundreds_in_border_town\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T05:00:07","slug":"ap_boko_haram_attack_kills_hundreds_in_border_town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43978","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Boko Haram Attack Kills Hundreds In Border Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country&#8217;s northeast.<\/p>\n<p>The attack escalates Nigeria&#8217;s growing crisis from a campaign of bombings, massacres and abductions being waged by the Boko Haram terrorist network in its campaign to impose an Islamic state on Africa&#8217;s most populous nation.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 300 people were killed in the assault late Monday on the town of Gamboru Ngala on Nigeria&#8217;s border with Cameroon. The extremists opened fire on a marketplace bustling with shoppers taking advantage of the cooler nighttime temperatures in the semi-desert region, then rampaged through the town for 12 hours, setting houses ablaze and shooting those who tried to escape.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/07\/boko-haram-attack_n_5279662.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country&#8217;s northeast. The attack escalates Nigeria&#8217;s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43978\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,202,168,426,659,327,155,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}