{"id":48649,"date":"2014-09-17T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=48649"},"modified":"2014-09-17T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T15:41:39","slug":"nigeria-college-attacked-by-gunmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/09\/nigeria-college-attacked-by-gunmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria college attacked by gunmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano.<\/p>\n
Students were seen fleeing from the city’s Federal College of Education.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”DijPD4mdIp32Lu69ptdBVJbWQYAC9jr0″]One student told the BBC by phone that he had seen 17 dead bodies at the scene.<\/p>\n
It is not clear who was responsible, although suspicion will fall on militant Islamist group Boko Haram, which has been waging an insurgency in Nigeria since 2009.<\/p>\n
In July the city suffered a spate of five attacks in four days, one of which also targeted a college and killed six people.<\/p>\n
In May 2013, Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency in the northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, vowing to crush the insurgency.<\/p>\n
However the militants have stepped up attacks, killing more than 2,000 civilians this year, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gunshots and an explosion have been heard at a teacher training college in the northern Nigerian city of Kano. Students were seen fleeing from the city’s Federal College of Education. [contextly_sidebar id=”DijPD4mdIp32Lu69ptdBVJbWQYAC9jr0″]One student told the BBC by phone that he had seen 17 dead bodies at the scene. It is not clear who was responsible, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":48650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[14],"yoast_head":"\n