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| 25 Dead in Suspected Suicide Attack in Zaria, Northern Nigeria |
| 2015-07-08 |
| [AnNahar] At least 25 people were killed when a kaboom destroyed a packed government office in Zaria, northern Nigeria, on Tuesday, in a suspected suicide kaboom likely to be 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 kaboom occurred at about 9:00 am (0800 GMT), as primary school teachers and public sector workers were queuing for identity checks, according to witnesses. "I am sad to confirm that an IED (improvised bomb) most likely carried by a jacket wallah went kaboom!in the Sabon Gari LG (local government district) and killed 25 people, including a two-year-old," Kaduna state governor Nasir El-Rufai said. El-Rufai added in the statement posted on his Facebook account that 32 others were maimed and were being treated in hospital. Zaria, a mainly Moslem city some 75 kilometers (47 miles) north of the state capital Kaduna city, is near the border with Katsina and Kano states. On Monday night, a young girl believed to be aged just 13 was killed when explosives strapped to her body detonated near a major mosque in Kano city. That bombing followed a twin attack on a mosque and restaurant in the central city of Jos on Sunday, which left 44 people dead, and a suicide kaboom on a church in Potiskum that killed five. Boko Haram has increased the intensity and frequency of its attacks on civilians since President Muhammadu Buhari came to power on May 29 vowing to crush the rebels. Local government worker the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said public sector staff and primary school teachers were undergoing screening to identify potential ghost workers on the state payroll. Another staff member who was waiting outside, Mohammed Abubakar, said: "We were taking turns going into the hall in batches for the screening and also to get our pay cheques. "The first batch had gone in. There were almost 100 people there, including the staff, the screening committee and accountants from the banks. "There was a huge kaboom inside the hall followed by billows of smoke and dust. Now the area has been cordoned off by coppers. "I can't give you an exact toll but I believe that dozens must have died given the number of people inside and the sound of the kaboom." Zaria has not been known as a stronghold of Boko Haram, which has been fighting for six years to create a hardline Islamic state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , but it has been attacked before. Female Bomber Kills 4 near NE Nigeria Military Checkpoint [AnNahar] A female jacket wallah on Tuesday blew herself up near a military checkpoint in restive Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, killing four people, witnesses said. "The woman ... alighted near a military check point in Sabon Gari where she blew herself up and killed four other people," witness Maikaho Abdu told AFP. He said the attack happened at Sabon Gari village, along Gombe road, some 110 kilometers (68 miles) from Maiduguri, the state capital. |
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