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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suicide bomber kills 8 in northeast Nigeria |
| 2015-05-20 |
| [CNN] A jacket wallah killed eight people and seriously injured 14 others on Tuesday when he detonated explosives strapped to his body at a livestock market in Garkida village in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's Adamawa state, witnesses and a politician said. The bomber went kaboom!in the crowded livestock market around 1:15 p.m. while traders were conducting business in the weekly market. "From the information I received from Garkida, the suicide kaboom killed nine people including the bomber while 14 others sustained serious injuries and are receiving treatment in hospital," said Jerry Kundusi, a member of the Adamawa state parliament for the region. Garkida, in the Gombi district, is 120 kilometers from the state capital, Yola. "Business was picking up when we heard a loud kaboom coming from the gates of the market and we instantly knew we had been attacked," cattle trader Buba Jada said. "We rushed to the scene, where we met nine dead bodies including the bomber's dismembered body and 14 people badly injured sprawled on the ground," Jada said. Although no one has grabbed credit for the attack, 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... Islamists, who have carried out a series of suicide attacks, are suspected. "The bomber is yet to be identified but no one needs to be told it is the handiwork of Boko Haram," Kundusi said. Adamawa is one of three northeastern states hardest hit by Boko Haram violence. The Islamists have seized territory in the area in the past year. |
| Posted by:Fred |