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| Buried IED blamed on Boko Haram kills 5 in northeast Nigeria |
| 2016-05-30 |
| [AlAhram] The military says a tricycle taxi has triggered a homemade explosive buried near a military checkpoint that killed four civilians and a soldier in Nigeria's northeastern town of Biu. Army front man Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman blamed 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... Islamic holy warriors and said victims include a mother and her baby. He said Sunday's blast was caused by an IED buried long ago. It's only the third kaboom in the past three months in Nigeria, signaling the success of a military campaign that has forced the holy warriors out of towns and villages and has taken the battle to their Sambisa Forest strongholds. There, the air force has been bombing camps and the army reports near-daily victories including freeing thousands of captives. The nearly seven-year-old insurgency has killed about 20,000 people. |
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