{"id":289266,"date":"2026-08-03T17:38:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=289266"},"modified":"2026-08-03T17:41:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:41:02","slug":"armed-gang-kidnaps-at-least-52-people-including-children-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/289266\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen kidnap at least 52 people, including children, in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gunmen kidnapped at least 52 people, including children, in a weekend attack on a village and military base in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The attackers seized rifles from the base and set a military patrol vehicle ablaze before raiding the village, where they abducted dozens of people, residents said.<\/p>\n

Kidnappings have become a major source of income for armed groups in Nigeria.<\/p>\n

Bandit gangs operate across swathes of rural northwest and central Nigeria where state presence is weak.<\/p>\n

They are known to levy “taxes” on farmers, rustle livestock, raid villages and are implicated in illegal mining operations.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gunmen kidnapped at least 52 people, including children, in a weekend attack on a village and military base in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, Euronews writes. The attackers seized rifles from the base and set a military patrol vehicle ablaze before raiding the village, where they abducted dozens of people, residents said. Kidnappings have become a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":289268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289266"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289273,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289266\/revisions\/289273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}