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Police arrest 92 in northern Nigeria | |||
2011-01-01 | |||
[Iran Press TV] Nigerian police have jugged 92 suspected members of Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter...
"We have jugged 92 suspected members of the sect in raids we carried out on many parts of the city Wednesday through Thursday in connection with yesterday's attacks," AFP quoted Borno state police commissioner Mohammed Jinjiri Abubakar as saying on Thursday. One of the detainees is a man in his 70s that police believe is the group's major financier, after materials such as chemicals used in bomb making were recovered from his residence following a raid.
In another incident on Tuesday, gunnies fired shots into a teaching hospital in Maiduguri, killing three men, including a police brass hat. Chaos broke out with attacks in densely populated areas of the central Nigerian city of Jos on Christmas Eve. Boko Haram group, whose name means "Western education is sinful" in the Hausa language spoken across northern Nigeria, announced on Tuesday that it was behind the Christmas Eve bombings in the central city of Jos. Death toll from the blasts and the post-attack ethnic festivities in Jos has climbed to at least 86 people. The city of Jos has been a hotbed of ethnic and religious violence in recent years. In January 2010, more than 550 Mohammedans, including many children, were killed as a result of an kaboom of violence between rival ethnic and religious groups in the central city.
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Posted by:Fred |
#1 The Religion of Peace and Tolerance strikes again! |
Posted by: Paul D 2011-01-01 06:31 |