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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria Islamists Kill 17 in Market Attack |
| 2014-03-24 |
| [An Nahar] At least 17 people have been killed by an kaboom in a village market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... in an attack blamed on 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... Islamists, a local police chief said on Sunday. The deadly blast struck a busy marketplace late on Thursday in the remote village of Nguro-Soye, Borno state, injuring many more, said police chief Lawan Tanko. News on the attack was slow to emerge after gunnies destroyed nearby telecom towers, shutting down communications in the area. "An kaboom in the market in Nguro-Soye killed 17 people," Tanko told AFP, adding that police were investigating the source of the kaboom. "The attack on Nguro-Soye, as in previous attacks, is the handiwork of Boko Haram turbans." Residents who fled the village to the state capital Maiduguri put the corpse count at nearly 30, and said more people were hurt. "They (attackers) fired RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) on the market and opened fire, killing 29 people," said local trader Hamisu Ibrahim. "Many people were maimed in the attack and the stampede that followed," said Ibrahim. Nguro-Soye lies close to the town of Bama where 60 people were killed last month in coordinated bomb and gun attacks by Boko Haram that burnt half the town. Deadly attacks blamed on the sect have intensified since the turn of the year, making it one of the bloodiest since the insurgency began in 2009. |
| Posted by:Fred |