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| Six killed in 'Boko Haram' suicide attack in NE Nigeria: Army |
| 2016-07-09 |
[AlAhram] Six people were killed on Friday when a jacket wallah went kaboom!at a mosque in Damboa, northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , the army said, in the latest violence to hit the restive region. Nigerian Army front man Colonel Sani Usman said the attack happened at about 5:15 am (0415 GMT) in the town of Damboa, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) southwest of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri. He blamed the attack on "two 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... terrorists". "The first suicide bomber targeted Damboa Central Mosque but due to stringent security measures he could not gain entry. Obviously frustrated, he went kaboom!and died near the central mosque," he added. "However, the man who has no enemies isn't anybody and has never done anything... the second bomber veered off and gained entry into another smaller mosque and detonated the bomb, killing himself and six other worshippers and injuring one other person. "The maimed have been evacuated to a hospital while efforts are on to clear the rubble. Troops and other security agencies have been mobilised to the area." The attack is the latest against a mosque in northeast Nigeria and the wider Lake Chad region, as part of a campaign of violence by the Islamist group against civilian "soft" targets. On June 27, two would-be suicide bombers were killed in Maiduguri, as they tried to target an overnight Ramadan vigil at a mosque on the Damboa Road. Three days later, at least 10 people were killed in the town of Djakana, in northern 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... near the Nigerian border, when a suicide bomber went kaboom!. On July 4, the Nigerian Army said it thwarted an attempted suicide kaboom by three women against people displaced by Boko Haram in Monguno, northeast of Maiduguri. There has been a relative lull in attacks, as troops regain control of territory once held by Boko Haram, whose fighters have been pushed into remote rural areas towards Lake Chad. Usman said suspected Boko Haram fighters also attacked the village of Gaskeri, near the sprawling internally displaced people's camp at Dalori, outside Maiduguri, on Thursday night. "They killed three civilian vigilantes and looted foodstuffs. Troops have been mobilised and they are on the suspected terrorists' trail," he added. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Was ever a labor as easeful As keeping Mohammedans peaceful? So swiftly they slaughter And clean up their clutter, You won't even have a Deepfreeze-ful. |
| Posted by: Sheba Noodleman3950 2016-07-09 14:44 |
| #3 A small bunch of extremists trying to hijack a Great Religion. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-07-09 14:21 |
| #2 Religion of Peace, and all that. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-07-09 13:31 |
| #1 Allan is pleased |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-07-09 10:09 |