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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suicide Bomber Kills 32 in Northeast Nigeria |
| 2014-11-04 |
| [ABCNEWS.GO] A jacket wallah killed himself and 32 civilians Monday when he detonated explosives on the edge of a religious procession by the moderate Moslem Brüderbund in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , a hospital official and witnesses said. The official said 119 people were maimed. He quoted hospital records in Potiskum, capital of Yobe state, and spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to news hounds. In a separate development, gunnies attacked a prison in central Kogi state and freed 145 inmates, prison chief Omale Adams told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. He said one inmate died in Sunday night's attack and 12 escapees were recaptured by late Monday. The prison break took place in a central part of the country that sporadically has been attacked by the Islamic myrmidon 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... group, though authorities would not say that the gunnies were the prime suspects. In Potiskum, Moslem Brüderbund members detained two suspects near the suicide bomber kaboom and refused to hand them over to the military, said Mohammed Adamu, a tailor who was part of the parade. As the crowd began beating the suspects with fists and wooden clubs, soldiers fired several shots into the air and one bullet killed a Moslem Brüderbund member, Adamu said. One suspect turned out to be a policeman, and the crowd finally handed both over to the police. An AP news hound saw the two badly beaten men at the hospital, along with two dozen women and kiddies injured in the blast. It is the first attack in months in Potiskum by suspected members of Boko Haram, which follows the strict Wahabi school of Islam. |
| Posted by:Fred |