{"id":5098,"date":"2018-10-21T11:32:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T07:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=5098"},"modified":"2018-10-21T11:32:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-21T07:32:59","slug":"clashes-at-market-kill-55-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/10\/21\/clashes-at-market-kill-55-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Clashes at market kill 55 in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Sectarian violence sparked by a spat at a market has left 55 people dead in Nigeria&#8217;s northern Kaduna state, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.<\/p>\n<p>Muslim and Christian youths reportedly clashed after a row between wheelbarrow porters in the town of Kasuwan Magani.<\/p>\n<p>The state police commissioner said 22 people were arrested after the unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities also imposed a round-the-clock curfew in the town. Nigeria often sees outbreaks of sectarian violence.<\/p>\n<p>Official presidential spokesperson Garba Shehu tweeted that Mr Buhari found the country&#8217;s frequent use of violence in such disputes &#8220;worrisome&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/604B\/production\/_97415642_007_in_numbers_624.png\" alt=\"Presentational white space\" width=\"624\" height=\"1\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Without harmony between different groups, &#8220;our everyday businesses would be impossible to achieve,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>He called on community leaders to encourage tolerance and stop such discord before it could develop into violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sectarian violence sparked by a spat at a market has left 55 people dead in Nigeria&#8217;s northern Kaduna state, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Muslim and Christian youths reportedly clashed after a row between wheelbarrow porters in the town of Kasuwan Magani. The state police commissioner said 22 people were arrested after the unrest. Authorities &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5099,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5098\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}