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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suicide bomb attack on Nigeria checkpoint kills eight |
| 2012-08-06 |
| A suicide car bomber attacked a military checkpoint in Nigeria's northeastern city of Damaturu on Sunday, killing six soldiers and two civilians, police said. Suspicion is likely to fall on Islamist sect Boko Haram, which is waging a bloody insurgency against President Goodluck Jonathan's government across the north. The sect is seeking to carve out an Islamic state in Africa's top energy producer and most populous country, which is split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack in Damaturu's Shagari housing estate. Labelled a foreign terrorist organisation by the United States, Boko Haram has been behind almost daily shootings and bombings in the volatile northeast. |
| Posted by:lotp |