{"id":334415,"date":"2025-12-25T04:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334415\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T04:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T04:47:05","slug":"five-killed-in-explosion-in-packed-nigerian-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/334415\/","title":{"rendered":"Five killed in explosion in packed Nigerian mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">At least five people have been killed in a bomb explosion in a packed mosque in Nigeria&#8217;s north-eastern Borno state, a police spokesman has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Nahum Daso told local media another 35 people were injured in the blast in the Gamboru market of Maiduguri, the state capital, during evening prayers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Unverified footage on social media appears to show the aftermath of the explosion, with people stood in a market area with dust particles in the air. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">No group has admitted carrying out the attack, but militants have previously targeted mosques and crowded places in the area with suicide attacks and improvised explosive devices (IED).<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Maiduguri has been central to an insurgency by the militant Islamist group Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Military operations by Boko Haram to create an Islamic caliphate in Borno state began in 2009. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Security measures against the group have failed to prevent sporadic attacks against civilians in north-east Nigeria. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least five people have been killed in a bomb explosion in a packed mosque in Nigeria&#8217;s north-eastern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-334415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}