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Suicide Bomber Kills 3 in NE Nigeria
[AnNahar] A teenage girl killed at least three people when she blew herself up in a crowd in northeast Nigeria... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Borno state, militia and humanitarian sources told AFP Saturday. "We evacuated three dead bodies and two people who were seriously injured from the scene," said aid worker Abubakar Mohammed. The attack happened in the town of Konduga, about 38 kilometres (24 miles) from the regional capital Maiduguri. The attacker set off her explosives among a group of men at a hangout next the local chief's home, said Ibrahim Liman, an anti-jihadist militia leader who gave the same toll. Konduga and surrounding villages have been repeatedly targeted by jacket wallahs from 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 typically attacks soft civilian targets such as mosques, markets and bus stations, often using young women as bombers. At least 30 people were killed last year in Konduga when three bombers detonated their explosives outside a hall where football fans were watching a match on TV. Boko Haram and a splinter group, the Islamic State  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP), have killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million since 2009. The jihadist conflict has spread into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , prompting a regional military coalition to end the violence. Related: Borno: 2020-12-15 Over 300 students still missing after Nigeria school attack, Abubakar Shekau claims it Borno: 2020-12-14 Presidency disagrees with Katsina gov, says 10 schoolboys in captivity Borno: 2020-12-13 Nigeria: Hundreds of students feared abducted by gunmen Related: Konduga: 2019-06-18 30 Killed in Triple Suicide Bombing in NE Nigeria Konduga: 2019-05-09 Boko Haram kills nine in Nigeria attacks Konduga: 2019-01-31 Nigerian Army troops kill 4 Boko Haram terrorists during gun battle in Borno Posted by: trailing wife 2020-12-20 |
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