{"id":62922,"date":"2017-08-31T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62922"},"modified":"2017-08-31T06:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T10:47:37","slug":"wwm-kano-nigeria-fatherson-killed-three-womena-baby-kidnapped-in-what-appears-to-be-a-new-attack-on-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62922","title":{"rendered":"(WWM) Kano, Nigeria: father+son killed, three women+a baby kidnapped in what appears to be a new attack on Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A father and son were killed, and three women and a baby abducted, in an attack in Nigeria\u2019s northern state of Kano, in the largely Muslim area of Tudun Wada.<\/p>\n<p>At around 8pm on 15 August, armed men, believed to be local Muslims, attacked the house of Baba Kale Dankali (62), a local Christian, and killed him.<br \/>\nHis son, Micah Kale (20) heard the gunshot, went out to see what had happened and found his father dead. At his agonised cries, the attackers returned and shot him dead too.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims\u2019 widows fled with their children.<\/p>\n<p>The armed men also targeted other Christian families, kidnapping three women and a baby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldwatchmonitor.org\/2017\/08\/kano-nigeria-father-and-son-killed-three-women-and-a-baby-kidnapped\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father and son were killed, and three women and a baby abducted, in an attack in Nigeria\u2019s northern state of Kano, in the largely Muslim area of Tudun Wada. At around 8pm on 15 August, armed men, believed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=62922\">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":[426,659,554,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria-africa","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62922","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=62922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62925,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62922\/revisions\/62925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}