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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Bomb Kills Man in Northern Nigerian City |
| 2012-06-09 |
| [An Nahar] A bomb killed one person early Friday in the northern city of Maiduguri where Islamist sect 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... has carried out series of deadly attacks, the army and residents said. The improvised bomb (IED), concealed in a bag kept under a public shed, went kaboom!around 6:00 am (0500 GMT) in the Gidan Dambe district of the volatile city, they said. The army said victim was a suspected Boko Haram member trying to plant an bomb. Residents however said they thought he was a drug addict who had been trying to find out what was in the bag. "There was an kaboom in an area of Maiduguri this morning and our men immediately deployed to the area," Colonel Victor Ebhaleme, commander of the Joint Task Force (JTF) operating in the city, told Agance La Belle France Press. "They found a man we believe to be a member of Boko Haram, dismembered by the kaboom". "Preliminary investigation has shown that he was killed when he was trying to plant the device," he stated. A resident said: "a resident known to be a drug addict, named Dalwa, went into the shed and tried to open the bag to see what was inside it. The device went kaboom!and killed him on the spot. His body was blown into pieces." |
| Posted by:Fred |