{"id":254,"date":"2024-07-02T13:58:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/?p=254"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:58:58","slug":"video-nigerias-vp-visits-hospital-as-gwoza-bombing-death-toll-rises-to-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/video-nigerias-vp-visits-hospital-as-gwoza-bombing-death-toll-rises-to-32\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Nigeria VP Visits Hospital as Gwoza Bomb Death Rises to 32"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shettima Vists Gwoza Bomb Survivors\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OHx-FJq0QTQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Vice President, Kashim Shettima hast updated the from the Gwoza suicide Bomb Attack n Borno state in\u00a0northeastern Nigeria. He said the number has climbed to 32.<\/p>\n<p>The VP said this during a visit to injured survivors at the Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 42 individuals initially evacuated from the attack site, several have succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment, bringing the total death toll to 32, Shettima told reporters<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Boko Haram\u00a0reportedly\u00a0deployed several female suicide bombers, resulting in numerous casualties and injuries in coordinated attacks targeting communities in Borno. Subsequent attacks occurred at a hospital and during the burials of some of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first major Boko Haram attack in nearly five years.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice President, who was accompanied by Borno\u2019s Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, who is acting governor following Governor Zullum\u2019s one-month vacation,\u00a0 and Senator Ali Ndume, who represents southern Borno and is a native of Gwoza, the targeted town, expressed their condolences to the survivors.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising the government\u2019s commitment to protecting its citizens, Vice President Shettima vowed to bring those responsible for this horrific act to justice. He also offered assurances of government support for all victims and their families affected by this tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video Credit: News Central<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s Vice President, Kashim Shettima hast updated the from the Gwoza suicide Bomb Attack n Borno state in\u00a0northeastern Nigeria. He said the number has climbed to 32. The VP said this during a visit to injured survivors at the Specialist Hospital in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno. Of the 42 individuals initially evacuated from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swifteradio.com\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}