[AnNahar] More than 45 people died Tuesday in twin kabooms, including one by a female jacket wallah, at a packed market in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri.The kabooms in the Borno state capital targeted the same Monday Market area where at least 15 people died July 1 in blast blamed on the 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...
murderous Moslem group.
Tuesday's attack came after the snuffies seized control of another town in Nigeria's restive northeast.
Health worker Dogara Shehu said he counted more than "45 people killed, some of them completely decapitated" in the Maiduguri blasts in an account supported by another witness.
An official with Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) confirmed that "many people have been killed" but did not have an official corpse count.
One senior police officer, who requested anonymity, described the kaboom, which happened at about 11:00 am (1000 GMT), as a "powerful bomb", which was felt across the city.
Market trader Usman Babaji told AFP the explosives were hidden in a motorized, three-wheeled rickshaw, which are popular throughout the country.
A second kaboom followed moments later as people rushed to the scene of the first bombing to help the injured, witnesses said.
Abubakar Bello, who sells chickens near the scene, said the woman was carrying explosives in a wrapper on her back, in the same way that babies are carried.
"She maneuvered her way to the scene of the earlier kaboom," he said in an account supported by three others.
"I think it was a deliberate plan to inflict much pain on unsuspecting people because the second kaboom went off after many people gathered at the scene of the first one."
Boko Haram will likely be blamed for the blasts, given that it has attacked Maiduguri dozens of times during its five-year fight to create a hardline Islamist state in northern Nigeria.
The Islamist group was founded in Maiduguri more than a decade ago and the city was once the epicenter of the conflict until its fighters were pushed out into more rural parts of the northeast.
Since May 2013, when a state of emergency was imposed in Borno and two neighboring states, violence has increased in the countryside, killing thousands and forcing many more to flee.
Boko Haram had earlier taken over the town of Damasak, in the far north of Borno near the border with neighboring Niger, starting their assault with an attack on the market there early Monday.
Many in recent weeks have warned that violence would return to Maiduguri and some have voiced concern that the Islamists might try to capture the key city.
Losing Maiduguri would be a huge blow for Nigeria's territorial integrity, but the military dismissed the warnings as alarmist.
Despite claims that they have since retaken a number of towns seized by the murderous Moslems, soldiers have largely been unable to halt Boko Haram attacks throughout the northeast.
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[Ynet] Two female jacket wallahs blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowded market in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, killing at least 30 people, according to witnesses and a security official.The two teenage girls dressed in full hijab entered the busy market and detonated their explosives, said Abba Aji Kalli, the Borno state coordinator of the Civilian Joint Task Force.
The first set off her explosives and killed about three women, said Kalli.
When others gathered around the scene, the second bomber screamed and blew herself up, killing about 30, he said.