{"id":93408,"date":"2026-09-18T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/dozens-of-suspected-illegal-miners-die-in-nigerian-custody-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T14:44:13","slug":"dozens-of-suspected-illegal-miners-die-in-nigerian-custody-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/dozens-of-suspected-illegal-miners-die-in-nigerian-custody-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of suspected illegal miners die in Nigerian custody | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining in north-central Nigeria have died in custody, local officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian Security and <!--more--> Civil Defence Corps blamed on an apparent disease outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>However, an intelligence report shared with the AFP news agency suggested the group died because of overcrowding and poor ventilation inside the detention facility in Niger state.<\/p>\n<p>Police have set up an investigation into the deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Nigeria #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining in north-central Nigeria have died in custody, local officials said. The Nigerian Security and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}