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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suspected Islamists raid Nigeria primary school, shoot teachers |
| 2013-03-13 |
| [Al Ahram] Suspected Islamist gunnies on cycle of violences stormed a primary school in Nigeria's main northern city of Kano on Tuesday and opened fire on teachers, wounding four of them, police said. The attackers made teachers at Dan Maliki Primary School lie on the ground before shots rang out, a witness told Rooters. No one grabbed credit for the assault, but Islamist Death Eater group 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... - whose nickname means "Western education is sinful" in the northern Hausa language - has targeted schools before. The movement has killed many hundreds in gun and kabooms since it launched an uprising against the government in 2009, opposing Western cultural influences and seeking to carve an Islamic state out of Africa's largest oil producer. The gunnies hit the headteacher and three other teachers, leaving them severly maimed, said police front man Magaji Musa Majiya. Boko Haram was the main suspect, he added. None of the pupils were harmed. "They made the teachers lie down on the ground, then there were gunshot sounds and everyone scampered to safety," said Hauwa Jinjiri, a trader working on the school premises who witnessed the attack. The shooting came a day after a rival Islamist movement Ansaru posted a video it said showed the bodies of seven foreign construction workers it killed after abducting them from a remote northern town last month. |
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