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| Deadly blast hits mosque in Nigeria's Maiduguri | |
| 2017-07-18 | |
| [Al Jazeera] At least eight people were killed on Monday when ajacket wallah'> The head of the Borno state emergency management agency, Ahmed Satomi, said the blast injured 15 others in the London Ciki area of Maiduguri, which has been at the epicentre of 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... violence since 2009. "The mosque was being guarded by civilian JTF [joint task force militia] during prayers," he told AFP. "Unknown to them, the girl was being pursued from another part of town by residents who were suspicious of her movement at the time. "When she approached the mosque, they demanded that she stop to be searched but she suddenly bolted into the mosque and set off her bombs."
It is the second time in a week that four female suicide bombers have sought to cause carnage in Maiduguri. Boko Haram meanwhile released a video online showing 10 women who they claimed to have kidnapped last month during an attack on a convoy. On June 20, the jihadists ambushed a convoy of vehicles under police escort heading towards the town of Damboa on a highway outside Maiduguri. Initially local news reports said that 16 policewomen had been abducted in the ambush. But police officials denied the reports, insisting only a policeman was killed in the attack. In the five-minute video, 10 women of varying ages sit on the ground in an undisclosed bush location surrounded by lush vegetation. "On behalf of all of us... I plead with the Nigerian government to intervene so that we are freed the way the Chibok schoolgirls were freed," said one of the hostages, who gave her name as Amina Adam Gombiya. Gombiya said she was a teacher at the Federal College of Freshwater Fisheries in the town of Baga on the shores of Lake Chad. Thousands of civilians have been abducted since the insurgency began in 2009. The jihadists use women and young girls as sex slaves and suicide bombers, while men and boys are recruited as fighters. | |
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