{"id":28024,"date":"2026-03-07T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28024"},"modified":"2026-03-07T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:13:38","slug":"nigerian-army-kills-45-in-katsina-clash","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/nigerian-army-kills-45-in-katsina-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian army kills 45 in Katsina clash \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 45 &#8220;bandits&#8221; were killed in a clash with Nigerian troops in \u200cthe Danmusa area of Katsina state in northern Nigeria, according to a statement from the Katsina State Government this \u2060Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The violence followed an attack by armed gangs of men from neighboring Zamfara state who rode into Alhazawa village in Musawa on March 5 and attempted to steal cattle, the statement \u200csaid.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060attackers returned the following day and encountered troops stationed at the army&#8217;s Forward Operating Base in \u2060Dan Ali near Maidabino ward, leading to a clash in which the \u2060army killed 45 of the attackers, the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Captain \u2060and two soldiers died in the encounter, the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28025,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-28024","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"At least 45 \"bandits\" were killed in a clash with Nigerian troops in \u200cthe Danmusa area of Katsina state in northern Nigeria","published_date":"2026-03-07 13:11:27","news_description":"At least 45 \"bandits\" were killed in a clash with Nigerian troops in \u200cthe Danmusa area of Katsina state in northern Nigeria","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28026,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28024\/revisions\/28026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}