{"id":116044,"date":"2021-03-04T10:31:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T02:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116044"},"modified":"2021-03-04T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-04T02:31:34","slug":"pregnant-woman-five-others-killed-as-ambulance-hits-landmine-in-burkina-faso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=116044","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant woman, five others killed as ambulance hits landmine in Burkina Faso"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Pregnant-woman-five-others-killed-as-ambulance-hits-landmine-in-Burkina-Faso-1194709?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/582\/58219484.295.jpg\" alt=\"Flag of Burkina Faso\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <br>OUAGADOUGOU, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0 A pregnant woman and five other people died when an ambulance carrying them hit a land mine in northern Burkina Faso, in an area that has come under repeated militant attacks, the government said.<br><br>The ambulance was carrying the woman, her husband, a girl and two other women between the towns of Gaskind\u00e9 and Namissiguia, near Burkina Faso\u2019s border with Mali on Tuesday, the government said.<br><br>No group immediately claimed responsibility for laying the land mine.<br><br>Attacks in Burkina Faso by fighters linked to Al Qaeda and Daesh have risen sharply over the last three years, displacing more than a million people.<br><br>Last month, Burkina Faso\u2019s government for the first time said that it was open to talks with militants to try to end the insurgency, a position echoed by authorities in neighbouring Mali. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OUAGADOUGOU, March 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212;\u00a0 A pregnant woman and five other people died when an ambulance carrying them hit a land mine in northern Burkina Faso, in an area that has come under repeated militant attacks, the government said. The ambulance was carrying the woman, her husband, a girl and two other women between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":116046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116044"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}