{"id":368002,"date":"2025-12-24T18:52:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368002\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T18:52:09","slug":"explosion-hits-packed-mosque-in-nigerias-maiduguri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/368002\/","title":{"rendered":"Explosion hits packed mosque in Nigeria&#8217;s Maiduguri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766551088_784_grey-placeholder.png\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 gUePlo hide-when-no-script\" aria-label=\"image unavailable\"\/><img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/8da32a70-e0f7-11f0-a8dc-93c15fe68710.jpg.webp.webp\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"BBC BBC breaking news banner with breaking written in white on a red background\" class=\"sc-5340b511-0 hLdNfA\"\/>BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Several people are feared to have been killed and injured in Nigeria after a suspected suicide bomber carried out an attack on a mosque in Borno state. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Eyewitnesses said the blast happened during evening prayers. One report suggests seven people were killed, but there has been no official confirmation of any casualties. <\/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 explosion in Maiduguri &#8211; the state&#8217;s capital &#8211; but militants have previously targeted mosques and crowded places in the area with suicide and improvised explosive device (IED) attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/10628994\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BBC News App<\/a>. You can also follow <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BBCBreaking\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"nofollow\">@BBCBreaking on X<\/a> to get the latest alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Several people are feared to have been killed and injured in Nigeria after a suspected suicide bomber&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-368002","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}