{"id":598344,"date":"2023-08-18T12:11:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=598344"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:02:08","slug":"36-soldiers-killed-in-ambush-by-armed-group-helicopter-crash-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/36-soldiers-killed-in-ambush-by-armed-group-helicopter-crash-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"36 soldiers killed in ambush by armed group, helicopter crash: Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 36 Nigerian soldiers were killed in the country&#8217;s northcentral region during an ambush by armed gangs and in the crash of a helicopter sent to the scene, the nation&#8217;s military said Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Residents told the Associated Press that the helicopter was shot down by the armed gangs in Niger state&#8217;s Wushishi district following clashes earlier in the week, echoing warnings from analysts about the growing might of the gunmen in the country&#8217;s hard-hit northern region. <\/p>\n<p>Soldiers were conducting an offensive operation in Niger state on Monday when they were ambushed by the armed gangs, defence spokesman Maj. Gen. Edward Buba told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 36 Nigerian soldiers were killed in the country&#8217;s northcentral region during an ambush by armed gangs and in the crash of a helicopter sent to the scene, the nation&#8217;s military said Thursday. Residents told the Associated Press that the helicopter was shot down by the armed gangs in Niger state&#8217;s Wushishi district following clashes earlier in the week, echoing warnings from analysts about the growing might of the gunmen in the country&#8217;s hard-hit northern region. Soldiers were conducting an offensive operation in Niger state on Monday when they were ambushed by the armed gangs, defence spokesman Maj. Gen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}