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| Female Suicide Bombers Kill 58 in Nigeria |
| 2016-02-11 |
| [AnNahar] Twojacket wallah'> ... 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... 's Islamist insurgency in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , emergency services, in the latest violence to hit the remote region. The attack happened in Dikwa, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) from the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, on Tuesday morning and is believed to be a reprisal for a military strike on Boko Haram strongholds in the area last week. The head of the Borno State Emergency Management Agency, Satomi Ahmed, earlier told AFP 35 bodies were recovered from the camp, which houses some 53,600 people, with 78 injured. He later said the other dead had been buried locally, leading to the revised toll. "From what we gathered three Ahmed said the woman told the military why she refused to detonate her explosives and warned them of further attacks to come in the remote region. The injured were taken to the Borno State Specialist Hospital and the Umaru Shehu Hospital, both in Maiduguri for treatment, he added. The camp in Dikwa is currently home to people from six local government areas in Borno: Dikwa itself, Gamboru Ngala, on the border with Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , and the towns of Marte, Kalabalge, Bama and Mafa. - Revenge - Last week, the Nigerian military attacked three villages considered Boko Haram strongholds near Kalabalge, killing dozens of myrmidon fighters and rescuing hundreds of women. The women were largely from the Shuwa Arab tribe, who had been kidnapped, prompting the authorities to suspect the latest attack to be Dire Revenge for the military operation. Boko Haram, which has increasingly used suicide and kabooms as the military pushes them out of territories it once controlled, has hit IDP camps before. On September 11 last year, seven people were killed when an improvised bomb went off at the Malkohi camp, near Yola, in neighboring Adamawa state. The camp had been used to house kidnapped women and kiddies rescued by the military. IDPs fleeing Dikwa were also the target of a On January 31, at least 85 people were killed in Dalori, some 12 kilometers from Maiduguri, when Boko Haram fighters attacked and burned down surrounding villagers. Suicide bombers tried to get into the IDP camp, which is the largest around Maiduguri, but were prevented. The Boko Haram insurgency has left at least 17,000 people dead and forced more than 2.6 million from their homes in nearly seven years of violence that has also spread to neighboring countries. |
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