{"id":288223,"date":"2011-03-03T16:29:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/03\/3-dead-in-bomb-blast-at-nigeria-rally\/"},"modified":"2011-03-03T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T16:29:59","slug":"3-dead-in-bomb-blast-at-nigeria-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/3-dead-in-bomb-blast-at-nigeria-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead in bomb blast at Nigeria rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"54.1087675765\">  <!-- start feedback link --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/feedback link --><br \/>\n       <!-- Tracking values --><\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!--startclickprintinclude-->   <!--endclickprintinclude--> <!--startclickprintexclude--> <\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>From  <b>Christian Purefoy<\/b>, CNN<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"29\"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><!-- CONTENT -->  <\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><b>STORY HIGHLIGHTS<\/b><\/p>\n<ul><!-- google_ad_section_start --><\/p>\n<li>The violence comes a month before elections<\/li>\n<li>The bomb struck women selling vegetables<\/li>\n<li>Oil-rich Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s most populous nation<\/li>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end --><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--> <!--startclickprintinclude--> <\/p>\n<p><b>Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)<\/b> &#8212; A bomb hurled at a political rally in Nigeria killed three people and wounded 21 others, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at a gubernatorial rally for the ruling People&#8217;s Democratic Party in Suleja, located in the country&#8217;s western Niger state.<\/p>\n<p>Elections are scheduled for April in the oil-rich country, the most populous in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Olusola Amore, national police spokesman, said the explosive was thrown from a moving vehicle, and struck women selling vegetables near the rally. Police were investigating, Amore said.<\/p>\n<p>The Suleja rally was taking place at the same time that the main opposition party, the Congress for Progressive Change, was holding a rally in Niger state.<\/p>\n<p><!--endclickprintinclude--><!-- google_ad_section_end --><br \/>\n<!-- \/cnn_strybtmcntnt --><\/div>\n<p><!-- \/cnn_strycntnt --><!-- \/cnn_strycntntrgt --><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/~r\/rss\/edition_africa\/~3\/tzUyxhCp9lg\/index.html\" title=\"3 dead in bomb blast at Nigeria rally\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3 dead in bomb blast at Nigeria rally<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> From Christian Purefoy , CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS The violence comes a month before elections The bomb struck women selling vegetables Oil-rich Nigeria is Africa&#8217;s most populous nation Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) &#8212; A bomb hurled at a political rally in Nigeria killed three people and wounded 21 others, police said. The incident occurred at a gubernatorial rally for the ruling People&#8217;s Democratic Party in Suleja, located in the country&#8217;s western Niger state. Elections are scheduled for April in the oil-rich country, the most populous in Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 dead in bomb blast at Nigeria rally - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/03\/3-dead-in-bomb-blast-at-nigeria-rally\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"3 dead in bomb blast at Nigeria rally - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"From Christian Purefoy , CNN STORY HIGHLIGHTS The violence comes a month before elections The bomb struck women selling vegetables Oil-rich Nigeria is Africa&#039;s most populous nation Lagos, Nigeria (CNN) -- A bomb hurled at a political rally in Nigeria killed three people and wounded 21 others, police said. 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