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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Female Suicide Bomber Kills Self, Soldier in Nigeria Attack |
| 2014-06-09 |
| [VOA News] A female jacket wallah killed herself and a soldier outside an army barracks in Nigeria's northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, the military said, as local leaders reported the death count from a string of earlier Death Eater attacks had reached 110. No one grabbed credit for the blast or last week's assaults, but Islamist 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... has set off bombs and killed thousands in its 5-year-old bid to carve out an Islamist state in the region. Soldiers stopped the woman as she tried to get into the barracks with explosives hidden under her robes, defense headquarters said in a statement. The device went off, killing her and a soldier searching her, it added. "I heard a loud sound and then black smoke covering the place. ... We saw soldiers moving bodies," Gombe trader Bello Kasuwankatako told Rooters. Witnesses had earlier said between three and five people died. |
| Posted by:Fred |