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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Three Police Killed in NE Nigeria Bomb Blast |
| 2015-07-22 |
| [AnNahar] Three coppers were killed in a kaboom during a vehicle search at a checkpoint outside the northeast Nigerian ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... city of Damaturu on Monday, police and a witness said, Yobe state police front man Toyin Gbadegesin told AFP initially that two officers were among eight people who died, including two bombers. But he later said: "More investigations as to the circumstances of the incident have revealed that all the other five people, including a woman, were in the car that went kaboom!. "Three coppers were killed in the blast," he added. The kaboom happened at about 1:00 pm (1200 GMT) to the north of the city, which is the capital of Yobe state, on the main road to Maiduguri in neighboring Borno state. "A police highway patrol team was searching vehicles just outside the city and an SUV with a foreign number (plate) arrived at the spot," said witness Umar Goni. "The police were uncomfortable, so they decided to search the vehicle. While the search was going on, another SUV arrived. It was stopped for the same search." The second car went kaboom!during the search, he added. A news hound with state-run Yobe Television, who was at the scene shortly after the blast, said a handbag belonging to the woman in the car was found and some explosives were recovered and defused. Gbadegesin confirmed his account. It was not immediately clear whether the checkpoint was the target but 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 have hit police stop and search points in the past. Damaturu has also been repeatedly attacked during the six-year insurgency, most recently last Friday, when explosives strapped to three girls went kaboom!near a Moslem prayer ground and a mosque. |
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