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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Twin bomb blasts kill 71, injure 124 in Nigeria |
| 2014-04-15 |
| [Iran Press TV] Twin bomb kabooms at a bus station outside Nigeria's capital city of Abuja have killed at least 71 people and severely injured 124 others. Nigerian security officials say the blasts occurred at the bus station packed with commuters on the outskirts of Abuja on Monday. The corpse count rose to 71 after several people gave up the ghost at hospitals across the capital city. This is while earlier media reports had put the corpse count at 35. Medical sources said the corpse count is expected to rise as some of the injured are reported to be at death's door. "We have a total of 71 dead and 124 others injured," media outlets quoted, national police front man, Frank Mba, as saying. No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack. Similar incidents, however, are usually 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... fighters. Abuja and its adjacent areas have been rocked by deadly bombings several times over the past few years. Several regions of Nigeria have been also hit by deadly violence in recent months. The developments come a day after at least 60 people were killed in two separate attacks in the towns of Anchaka and Bama in northeastern Borno state on Sunday. |
| Posted by:Fred |