{"id":40785,"date":"2026-07-27T16:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T14:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40785"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:45:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:45:42","slug":"thirty-people-killed-by-army-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/thirty-people-killed-by-army-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty killed in attack on Nigerian village"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">At least 30 people have been killed by armed men in an attack on a village in Nigeria&#8217;s \u200bnorthwestern Kaduna state early <\/span><span dir=\"ltr\" style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">this Monday morning<\/span><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"ms-outlook-mobile-body-separator-line\" dir=\"ltr\" data-applydefaultfontstyles=\"true\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Secretary to the village head, Dogon Rana says gunmen stormed the community shooting randomly and burning houses.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Eight \u200bchildren are among the dead, while four \u200bother people sustained injuries. Violence by armed gangs and \u2060other criminal groups has become a major \u200bsecurity challenge across parts of northwestern and north-central Nigeria, \u200bwhere communities are frequently targeted in deadly raids.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0The northeast is battling a deadly insurgency by Islamist militants Boko Haram and \u200bsplinter group \u00a0Islamic State West Africa Province.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u2014ChannelAfrica\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14609,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-40785","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":" The northeast is battling a deadly insurgency by Islamist militants Boko Haram and \u200bsplinter group  Islamic State West Africa Province.","published_date":"","news_description":" The northeast is battling a deadly insurgency by Islamist militants Boko Haram and \u200bsplinter group  Islamic State West Africa Province.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40785","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":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40805,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40785\/revisions\/40805"}],"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=40785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=40785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}