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| Bomb targets vehicle in Nigerian governor's motorcade |
| 2011-11-16 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] A bomb targeting a police vehicle in a governor's motorcade and two other blasts rocked the volatile Nigerian city of Maiduguri, but no casualties were reported, police and residents said Tuesday. The blast involving the motorcade of Borno state Governor Kashim Shettima occurred Monday when suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. Currently wearing a false nose and moustache and answering to Jama'atu Ahlus-Sunnah Lidda'Awati Wal Jihad, or Big Louie... threw a bomb at the police vehicle on the road from the Maiduguri airport. The governor was returning from the capital Abuja and was being welcomed by supporters along the airport road following his victory in a legal challenge to his election win in April. "There was a blast targeted at one of our vehicles, but it did not hit its target," Borno state police commissioner Simeon Midenda told AFP. "It was a mild kaboom. Nobody was killed or injured." Midenda said a second kaboom targeted a military checkpoint around the Abbaganaram area of the city Monday evening. "The assailants detonated a bomb by the roadside around 7:30 pm in order to attract the attention of JTF (military Joint Task Force)," he said. "When the JTF heard the blast, they went to the scene and the Boko Haram members started firing indiscriminately and the JTF members fired back. At the end of the day, the assailants decamped." Residents also told AFP a third kaboom also occurred at Zajeri, a suburb of the city. |
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