{"id":34563,"date":"2026-01-05T03:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34563"},"modified":"2026-01-05T03:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T03:04:30","slug":"30-killed-in-central-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=34563","title":{"rendered":"30 killed in central Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>More than 30 people were killed and several others kidnapped by &#8220;bandits&#8221; in Nigeria&#8217;s central Niger state, local police said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The bandits invaded Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district and set a market ablaze, before looting shops for food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over 30 victims lost their lives during the attack, some persons were also kidnapped,&#8221; during the raid on Saturday, Wasiu Abiodun, Niger police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>Kidnap gangs, referred to as bandits by locals, regularly carry out mass kidnappings for ransom and loot villages in the parts of northwest and northcentral Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>But Niger state has been one of the hardest hit in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>In November, armed gangs seized more than 250 teachers and staff from a Catholic school in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities announced their release in two batches weeks later without saying if ransom was paid.<\/p>\n<p>At least 26 people drowned and 14 others are missing after a boat carrying farmers and fishermen capsized in northeastern Nigeria, the emergency services said Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 people were killed and several others kidnapped by &#8220;bandits&#8221; in Nigeria&#8217;s central Niger state, local police said Sunday. The bandits invaded Kasuwan Daji village in Kabe district and set a market ablaze, before looting shops for food. &#8220;Over 30 victims lost their lives during the attack, some persons were also kidnapped,&#8221; during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}