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Hotel blast in northeast Nigeria kills 3, wounds 14
[Arab News] An kaboom at a hotel killed three people and maimed 14 others in northeastern Nigeria only days before the state's gubernatorial election, police said Monday. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.A second kaboom went off Monday morning at a cattle market in the town of Maiduguri, which has long been wracked by violence related to the radical sect. There were no casualties from that blast, police chief Mike Zuokumor said. "The enemies of Nigeria are scaring people from coming out to vote," Zuokumor said as election workers prepared for Tuesday's gubernatorial poll. Officials already have delayed governor elections in two other northern states after violence following the April 16 presidential vote left at least 500 dead. The radical group known as Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... had released a statement earlier Sunday defending its string of deadly attacks on police and religious leaders in recent months. "All the people that we are killing, including ward heads, politicians, the police and the army have erred, because they are associating themselves with the government in its effort to arrest our Mohammedan brothers and sabotage Islam," the group said in its statement released Sunday. While the presidential vote sparked deadly riots across northern Nigeria, Borno state has seen little violence directly related to the voting so far this month. The group did, however, claim responsibility earlier this year for killing Modu Fannami Gubio, the Borno state candidate of the All Nigeria People's Party. Posted by: Fred 2011-04-26 |
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