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| Suicide Bombing in Northeast Nigeria Mosque Kills at Least 9 |
| 2015-06-01 |
| [AnNahar] A jacket wallah killed at least nine people on Saturday inside a mosque in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's city of Maiduguri, with the blast leaving much of the building destroyed, witnesses said. "It was suicide kaboom by a bomber who pretended to be worshiper," said Haruna Dawud, a trader at the Monday Market which is next to the mosque. The Monday Market has over the past year been hit by several suicide kabooms blamed 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... . The Islamist murderous Moslems launched an overnight attack on Maiduguri on Saturday but were repelled by the military. Dawud said he saw 20 bodies being evacuated after the blast at roughly 3:30 pm (1430 GMT) but could not confirm how many were dead. Another trader, Nura Khalid, said he personally counted nine corpses being taken out of the mosque. "The roof was blown off and fire destroyed the mats and a few Korans," Khalid told AFP. Sada Umaru, a trader who participated in the rescue operation, also said the corpse count may reach 20 or higher, but like Dawud, was not able to confirm a specific toll amid the chaos that followed the blast. Umaru confirmed the accounts of other witnesses that the attacker entered the mosque pretending to be a worshiper who had come for afternoon prayers. The bombing and the thwarted Boko Haram attack on Maiduguri came hours after Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn into office, vowing to crush the krazed killer group. |
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