{"id":144399,"date":"2024-12-31T18:19:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists"},"modified":"2024-12-31T20:49:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T19:49:26","slug":"explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists","title":{"rendered":"Explosion kills 7 ISWAP terrorists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, has been killed in an explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The development occurred while the terrorists were attempting to prepare improvised explosive devices, IEDs.<\/p>\n<p>Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, who made this known in a post on his X handle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Makama said that impeccable sources confirmed to him that the incident occurred on December 30, 2024, in a locality between Ba\u2019anfani and Koleram in the far Lake Chad Basin of Borno state.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the explosion happened during the assembly of the IEDs, which the terrorists likely intended to use for attacks in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Lake Chad Basin has been a hotspot for ISWAP activities, with the group frequently resorting to IEDs as part of its terror tactics as a desperate attempt,\u201d the security expert added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, has been killed in an explosion. The development occurred while the terrorists were attempting to prepare improvised explosive devices, IEDs. Zagazola Makama, a Lake Chad Basin counterterrorism and insurgency expert, who made this known in a post on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[719,718,254],"class_list":["post-144399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-explosion","tag-iswap","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Explosion kills 7 ISWAP terrorists - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, has been killed in an explosion. ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Explosion kills 7 ISWAP terrorists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At least seven terrorists belonging to the Islamic State West Africa Province, ISWAP, has been killed in an explosion. ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-12-31T17:19:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-12-31T19:49:26+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1735661934.503682.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Explosion kills 7 ISWAP terrorists\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-12-31T17:19:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-12-31T19:49:26+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\"},\"wordCount\":159,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/sm_1735661934.503682.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"explosion\",\"ISWAP\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/explosion-kills-7-iswap-terrorists\",\"name\":\"Explosion kills 7 ISWAP terrorists - 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