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At Least Five Dead in Nigeria Suicide Attacks
[AnNahar] At least two people were killed in a suspected suicide kaboom on a university campus in northeast Nigeria... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , a local resident, a lecturer and emergency services told AFP on Monday. The blast happened at 5:25 am (0425 GMT) at a mosque in the staff quarters area of the University of Maiduguri and is thought to have been carried out by a teenage girl. Suspicion will likely fall on the Islamist group 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... , which has repeatedly used young women and girls as human bombs to target worshippers. There were reports locally of a separate kaboom but details were not immediately available. "At exactly 5:25 am, while I was leaving the mosque in my neighbourhood, I heard two kabooms," said one local resident, who asked not to be identified. "I rushed to the university, which is not far from my house. On entering, I saw the mosque in a mess. Three people lay dead, including a maiden, whose body was badly mutilated. "Thirteen other worshippers were maimed." A university lecturer who lives on site confirmed the resident's account. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) tweeted: "A #bomb went kaboom!at the #mosque at the University of #Maiduguri during early morning prayers. Rescue operations ongoing..." Access to the university campus has been strictly controlled, with checkpoints and searches at the gates. But the site, on one of the main thoroughfares leading in to and out of the city, is vast and most areas are badly lit.
kaboom!at Nigeria's northeastern University of Maiduguri, killing five people. One student said the first blast destroyed the mosque where professors were saying dawn prayers and many are feared among the victims. A university worker said the second bomb went off at an entrance gate. Both spoke on condition of anonymity for their safety. Police front man Victor Isuku confirmed Monday's kabooms but said rescuers are still ferrying the maimed to hospitals and evacuating bodies, making it difficult to give a toll. Maiduguri has been attacked many times but this is the first attack on the university blamed on Boko Haram.
A video featuring an audio recording purporting to be leader Abubakar Shekau ... the lunatic leader of Boko Haram who has been reported dead at least eleven times, pledged his body and soul to ISIS, told his fighters to hang it up once or twice, and been fired by the Caliph and refused to step down ... was posted on social media late on Monday. Rooters was unable to verify if the voice was indeed his. "The bomb that went kaboom!on Monday morning, it's our brothers responsible for it," the recording said. A professor at the University of Maiduguri and a child were killed and 17 people maimed in a twin suicide kaboom, officials said on the day of the attack. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-17 |
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