{"id":48697,"date":"2019-11-02T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48697"},"modified":"2019-11-02T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-02T07:22:09","slug":"update-53-soldiers-killed-in-attack-on-mali-military-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=48697","title":{"rendered":"Update: 53 Soldiers Killed In Attack On Mali Military Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BAMAKO, Mali, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The death toll from a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; on a military post in northeast Mali has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said today (Saturday).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-five soldiers were killed, on the spot, Friday, in Indelimane, about 70 km west of Menaka, near the border with Niger, according to the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An investigation into the attack has been underway, it added. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2015, the west African country has suffered a spate of terrorist attacks, that have killed over 500 people and displaced over 450,000 others.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BAMAKO, Mali, Nov 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; The death toll from a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; on a military post in northeast Mali has risen to 53, Communication Minister, Yaya Sangare, said today (Saturday). Thirty-five soldiers were killed, on the spot, Friday, in Indelimane, about 70 km west of Menaka, near the border with Niger, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,286,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48697"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}