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Boko Haram attacks leave 13 dead including the attackers, dozens hurt in Nigeria city
[AlAhram] At least 13 people are dead, including four attackers, after 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... launched the deadliest attack in months on the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... city that is the birthplace of the krazed killer group, police said Thursday. The attack came just hours before a visit by the country's acting president. The jihadists attacked late Wednesday in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, as evening prayers were ending, targeting four locations around the city. Thirteen people were killed, including four attackers, Police Commissioner Damian Chukwu said. Extremists also clashed with soldiers outside the city in Alidawari village and Jiddari Polo suburb, where homes were set on fire, Chukwu said. Nigerian forces killed three Boko Haram holy warriors in that fighting, he said, and one attacker was captured alive. Acting president Yemi Osinbajo arrived in Maiduguri on Thursday to launch a food relief program for hundreds of thousands of people who have fled their homes in the wake of Boko Haram attacks in the region. The eight-year insurgency has killed more than 20,000, kidnapped thousands and spilled into neighboring countries, creating a vast humanitarian crisis with thousands said to be near starvation. The attacks late Wednesday in Maiduguri took place in various locations around the Chad Basin Development Authority headquarters just before 9 p.m., resident Alhaji Bashir said. The targets included a mosque, he said. Young members of a civilian defense group, who have come together to combat the Islamic krazed killers, saw one jacket wallah at the headquarters. "One of the youth vigilantes rushed to hold him, and the bomb went off and killed the suicide bomber and three other persons," Bashir said. In another attack, a Dozens of injured people filled the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital on Thursday, said Abba Shehu, a private security worker. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-09 |
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