{"id":28938,"date":"2026-03-17T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28938"},"modified":"2026-03-17T10:08:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:08:31","slug":"suspected-triple-suicide-attacks-kill-at-least-23-in-nigerias-maiduguri","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/suspected-triple-suicide-attacks-kill-at-least-23-in-nigerias-maiduguri\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected triple-suicide attacks kill at least 23 in Nigeria&#8217;s Maiduguri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 23 people were killed and \u200b108 injured in suspected multiple suicide-bomb \u200cattacks in Maiduguri city, capital of Nigeria&#8217;s insurgency-hit northeastern state of Borno, the state \u200bpolice command said in a statement \u200blate on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The first blast went \u2060off at a post office in \u200bthe city centre and was immediately followed \u200bby another at the popular Monday market nearby, two security sources and three Maiduguri residents \u200btold Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>One blast hit the \u200bUniversity of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital, and another struck the \u200ceastern \u2060neighbourhood of Kaleri, all in the early evening of Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Preliminary investigation reveals that the incidents were carried out by \u200bsuspected suicide \u200bbombers,&#8221; the \u2060state police said in the statement.<br \/>\nIt said normalcy had been \u200brestored and security forces had \u200btightened \u2060patrols across the city to prevent further attacks, adding that an investigation into \u2060the \u200bcircumstances of the attack \u200bwas underway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14609,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-28938","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"One blast hit the \u200bUniversity of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.","published_date":"","news_description":"One blast hit the \u200bUniversity of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28938","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\/28938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28939,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28938\/revisions\/28939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}