{"id":92738,"date":"2014-06-19T15:35:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=92738"},"modified":"2014-06-19T15:35:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T11:35:52","slug":"blast-at-nigerian-soccer-viewing-center-kills-men-young-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=92738","title":{"rendered":"Blast at Nigerian soccer viewing center kills men, young boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/17\/world\/africa\/nigeria-blast\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">explosion at a soccer viewing center<\/a> in northeastern Nigeria claimed the lives of several men and young boys watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/17\/sport\/football\/brazil-mexico-world-cup-football\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil-Mexico World Cup match<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A hospital source said Wednesday that 21 people were killed in the explosion and another 27 were injured.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the outskirts of Damaturu, in Yobe state, the sources said. The explosives had been concealed in an abandoned motorized rickshaw outside the center.<\/p>\n<p>Volatile northeastern Nigeria is the home of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/04\/17\/world\/africa\/boko-haram-explainer\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boko Haram<\/a> group, the militant Islamists who abducted scores of schoolgirls in April.<\/p>\n<p>A Yobe police official in Damaturu told CNN the extremist group had distributed leaflets to the viewing centers in three different languages warning them not to open during the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday&#8217;s explosion at a soccer viewing center in northeastern Nigeria claimed the lives of several&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":92735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}