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| Boko Haram claims suicide attack in NE Nigeria |
| 2016-05-15 |
| [ZEENEWS.INDIA] Maiduguri: 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... today claimed a suicide kaboom that killed two coppers in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , just days before a regional security summit on efforts to eradicate the Islamists. The group, using the name Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... West Africa Province (ISWAP), said in a statement posted on social media that the bomber "was able to detonate his explosive vest in the area of Maiduguri". It claimed "at least 15 apostates (non-believers)" were killed in the attack, which happened at about 12:00 pm (1100 GMT) at the Borno State Secretariat in the city. But Nigerian Army front man Sani Usman said only two died and said the attacker blew up as security personnel stopped him from trying to get into the government offices. "Unfortunately in the process of stopping him, he detonated the improvised bomb on his body, instantly killing himself, a policeman and critically injuring another policeman... "Sadly, the injured policeman died later," Usman said in an emailed statement, adding that 18 people were maimed and taken for treatment. Mohammed Kanar, regional coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency, and an accident and emergency front man for the Borno State Specialist Hospital, also confirmed just two deaths. Between 19 and 24 people were maimed in the blast, they added. Locals and street vendors earlier told AFP the kaboom initially appeared to come from a passing motorised rickshaw, which went up in flames and was gutted in the blast. Boko Haram jacket wallahs have previously used public transport to travel to multiple targets in the northeast and wider north. |
| Posted by:Fred |