{"id":1710,"date":"2018-05-04T02:17:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T02:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=1710"},"modified":"2018-05-04T02:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T02:17:30","slug":"at-least-24-killed-in-double-bomb-blasts-in-nigerian-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2018\/05\/04\/at-least-24-killed-in-double-bomb-blasts-in-nigerian-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 24 killed in double bomb blasts in Nigerian mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/cite>At least 24 people were killed Tuesday in twin bomb blasts in a mosque in northeast Nigeria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The incident occurred in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State at 1 p.m. local time as worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers, police said.<\/div>\n
A spokesman for the Adamawa State police said the bombers were positioned in different locations around the mosque.<\/div>\n
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“The first bomber went into the mosque while they were praying and detonated his explosives, killing four people,” Othman Abubakar said.<\/div>\n
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As worshippers fled the mosque, the second bomber, who was a few hundred meters away, also detonated his device, killing another 20 people, Abubakar said.<\/div>\n
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“This desecration of a place of worship by criminals is tragic and condemnable,” said a five-part statement on the verified Twitter account for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari’s office.<\/div>\n
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo was working with emergency services to make sure victims were being cared for, according to the tweets.<\/div>\n
The government has ordered security services to bolster their numbers in Mubi and other places, particularly around markets and places of worship.<\/div>\n
The bombings come just a day after suicide bombers killed four people in Maiduguri, Borno State.<\/div>\n
It also comes a day after Buhari met Trump at the White House and had\u00a0discussions\u00a0<\/a>about the security challenges the country faces, including the nearly decadelong insurgency by Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast of the country.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)At least 24 people were killed Tuesday in twin bomb blasts in a mosque in northeast Nigeria. The incident occurred in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State at 1 p.m. local time as worshippers gathered for afternoon prayers, police said. A spokesman for the Adamawa State police said the bombers were positioned in different locations around the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1710\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}