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| Boko Haram suspected after football screening venue bombed in Nigeria |
| 2014-06-19 |
| [ZEENEWS.INDIA] 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... turbans were on Wednesday suspected of carrying out a deadly kaboom against football fans watching the World Cup in northern Nigeria, in the latest violence targeting the game. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the Nayi-Nama area of Damaturu on Tuesday night but the Islamists have previously carried out attacks on informal, big screen venues. Boko Haram, which in April kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... to international condemnation, has been waging a brutal, five-year insurgency that has claimed thousands of lives. Residents in Nayi-Nama said the bomb appeared to have been hidden in a motorised rickshaw outside the Crossfire venue, where crowds had gathered to watch tournament hosts Brazil play Mexico. The blast happened at about 8:15 pm (1915 GMT), 15 minutes after the match kicked off in Fortaleza, tearing corrugated roofs from nearby buildings and throwing masonry across a wide area, television pictures showed. "We received 21 dead bodies and 27 injured victims from the blast," a source at the Sani Abacha Specialist Hospital in Damaturu, told AFP. Soldiers and police brought in the dead and injured from the scene of the blast, which was quickly cordoned off, the source said. "The victims are young men and children. They have burns, ruptured tissue and bone fractures," he added. Yobe state police commissioner Sanusi Rufa'i said at least 14 people were killed and 26 injured. Conflicting corpse counts are common in Nigeria and the authorities often round down the number of victims. "Our forensic experts are conducting on-the-scene assessment to establish what really happened. We will make public our findings when investigations are concluded," he added. At the hospital, television pictures showed packed wards of men lying on blood-stained mattresses with bandages on their hands and legs. One told Nigeria's Channels station that he was passing by the centre when the bomb went off: "I couldn't tell what happened because everybody was struggling to survive," he said. The head of football's world governing body FIFA, Sepp Blatter, wrote on Twitter: "Terrible to read of fatalities & injuries in Nigeria, where fans were watching the #WorldCup. Football should unite people, not divide them." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 But drinking camel piss is. Google: The saheeh hadeeth about drinking camelÂ’s urine. May Allaah reward you. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2014-06-19 18:49 |
| #1 Happiness, contentment and basic enjoyment of life are not Islamic. |
| Posted by: Snusort Spomose2148 2014-06-19 14:06 |