{"id":17624,"date":"2018-09-13T14:39:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/worlds\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-cinema-goers-in-zamfara\/38"},"modified":"2018-09-13T14:39:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T14:39:38","slug":"nigeria-gunmen-kill-cinema-goers-in-zamfara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/?p=17624","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria gunmen kill cinema-goers in Zamfara"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"b-article-ext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image of a destroyed village in Zamfara State\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-cinema-goers-in-zamfara-5b9a76aa2d4e6.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"732\"\/> Image copyright AFP Image caption Vigilante groups and cattle rustlers have led to a number of clashes in Zamfara State <\/p>\n<p>Gunmen have attacked a cinema in Nigeria&#8217;s north-western Zamfara State, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20, witnesses and hospital sources told the BBC. <\/p>\n<p>The suspected armed bandits opened fire at a village hall, where residents gather at night to watch films. <\/p>\n<p>The cinema-goers panicked, many escaped with multiple gunshot wounds or broken bones, according to witnesses. <\/p>\n<p>Amnesty International has warned about the escalating violence in the area.<\/p>\n<p> Africa Live: Find out all the latest news from the continent How Zamfara State became a bloodbath that no-one cares about <\/p>\n<p>It is not clear why the cinema was targeted, but villages in Zamfara State have come under heavy attack from armed bandits in recent months. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" src=\"http:\/\/allworldsnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/nigeria-gunmen-kill-cinema-goers-in-zamfara-5b9a76aa6987f.png\"> <\/p>\n<p>Hospital sources says some of the victims&#8217; injuries are life-threatening, while the dead have already been buried. <\/p>\n<p>The police say security personnel have been deployed to track down the assailants.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 400 people have been killed in the state this year amid an increase in robbery, killings, and kidnappings for ransom, according to the rights group Amnesty. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFP Image caption Vigilante groups and cattle rustlers have led to a number of clashes in Zamfara State Gunmen have attacked a cinema in Nigeria&#8217;s north-western Zamfara State, killing 11 people and injuring more than 20, witnesses and hospital sources told the BBC. The suspected armed bandits opened fire at a village hall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8112,8113,8114,8115],"class_list":["post-17624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worlds","tag-15-herders","tag-gunmen","tag-herdsmen","tag-zamfara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pornvas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}