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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Two Female Suicide Bombers Kill Four in NE Nigeria |
| 2015-01-12 |
| [AnNahar]. Four people were killed in the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n city of Potiskum on Sunday, when two female jacket wallahs, one of them aged about 15, blew themselves up in a crowded market. The blasts at the Kasuwar Jagwal mobile phone market in the commercial capital of Yobe State came just a day after a young girl thought to be aged only 10 killed 19 in Maiduguri, in neighboring Borno State. "We evacuated six bodies including those of the two female suicide bombers to the hospital. Twenty-one people were maimed in the attacks. A security source involved in the rescue operation told Agence La Belle France-Presse of Sunday's bombings: "One of the bombers looked 23 and the other 15. "The first bomber -- the 23 year-old -- detonated her explosives just outside the entrance of the market, where volunteers were sweeping people going inside the market with metal detectors. "The second bomber was terrified by the kaboom and she tried to dash across the road but she also went kaboom!." Both the security official and a nurse at the Potiskum General Hospital said six people were confirmed dead and 21 were maimed. Witness Ibrahim Dambam said the second blast went off as people fled the first. Sunday is Potiskum's market day and attracts traders and shoppers from all over Yobe State and beyond. Panicked shoppers fled and traders abandoned their stalls at both the mobile phone market and the city's main market, which is just next door. - More female suicide bombers - There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the latest attacks but suspicion is likely to fall on 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... , which have increasingly used female suicide bombers since last June. Some security analysts believe that older women may willingly become human bombs as they share the Islamists' radical ideology or are out to avenge the death of loved ones at the hands of the military. But the young ages of some of the bombers -- such as the girl in Maiduguri -- and the actions of the 15-year-old in Potiskum suggest that coercion is being used. A civilian vigilante who witnessed the Maiduguri bombing said of the young bomber: "I doubt if she actually knew what was strapped to her body." Another eye-witness said it appeared that the bomb was remote-controlled, which chimes with testimony from other attacks across the wider north of Nigeria. This weekend's attacks are the latest in a spike in violence in northeast Nigeria, as elections for a new president and parliament approach next month. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 What kind of a father would send his 15 year old daughter on a suicide bombing mission? Oh, yeah. That kind. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2015-01-12 11:32 |