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Two New Suicide Blasts in NE Nigeria, up to 30 Dead
[ALMANAR.LB] Twojacket wallah'> ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n state of Adamawa on Monday, an army official said, with a local community leader giving a toll of at least 30 killed. The military chief in Adamawa state, Brigadier-General Victor Ezugwu, confirmed the twin suicide kaboom  s in the town of Madagali but did not give a toll.Madagali sits close to the border of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... stronghold Borno state and has been repeatedly attacked by the "jihadists" in their quest to establish an independent ISIL in Africa's most populous nation. "The two female bombers killed at least 30 people in the twin blasts in the market," Maina Ularamu, a community leader and former chairman of Madagali local government, told AFP. In August last year, Boko Haram seized Madagali, prompting an exodus of residents to the state capital of Yola. Since then, the Nigerian military has clawed back Madagali in a series of military victories against the turban group, winning territory across Borno, Adawama and Yobe states. In a defiant show of strength, Boko Haram rebels have staged a wave of attacks in the final days before Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's self-imposed deadline to exterminate the group expires on December 31. Between Sunday and Monday morning the holy warriors launched suicide and gun attacks on the key northeast city of Maiduguri in Borno state, killing 22 people and injuring scores of others. Earlier this week, Buhari had said the Nigerian government had "technically" defeated Boko Haram and reduced their capacity to attack, yet the latest bloodshed the holy warriors remain capable of causing mass carnage. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-29 |
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