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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Boko Haram suspected in suicide bomb at Nigeria school, 48 dead |
| 2014-11-11 |
| [FOXNEWS] A jacket wallah-- dressed in a school uniform and apparently carrying explosives in a student rusksack-- killed at least 48 people at a boys high school in northeastern Nigeria Monday. The holy warrior 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... is believed to have carried out the attack, police told the BBC. The terror group--whose name roughly translates to "Western education is forbidden"-- has regularly targeted schools during a deadly five-year insurgency aimed at establishing an Islamic state. The gunnies have initiated violent attacks to prevent children from going to school, believing girls should not attend school and boys should only receive an Islamic education. Survivors of Monday's bombing said the explosives detonated during the weekly assembly at the Government Technical Science College in Potiskum, capital of the Yobe state. An estimated 2,000 students had gathered in the school's hall at the time of the blast. "We were waiting for the principal to address us, around 7:30 a.m., when we heard a deafening sound and I was blown off my feet, people started screaming and running, I saw blood all over my body," 17-year-old student Musa Ibrahim Yahaya said from the general hospital, where he was being treated for head wounds. Hospital workers say at least 79 victims are being treated and amputations are likely. A morgue worker told the News Agency that Dare Not be Named at least 48 people--ranging in age from 11 to 20 years old-- had died. The hospital was so overcrowded that some patients were squashed two to a bed. A resident told the BBC there were parents wailing at the sight of their children's bodies at the hospital. Soldiers rushed to the grisly scene, but were chased away by people throwing stones, angry at the military's inability to halt a 5-year-old Islamic insurgency that has killed thousands and driven hundreds of thousands from their homes. The region has been in the grip of fighting between government forces and Boko Haram. Garba Alhaji, father of one of the maimed students, said the school did not have proper security. "I strongly blame the Yobe state government for not fencing the college," he said, adding that just three months ago a bomb was discovered in the school and removed by an anti-bomb squad. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 No outcry Remoteman, the world is still too upset over the Ebola screening equipment Israel gave to the Palestinians. Child killing, rape, beheadings - that's perfectly reasonable if conducted in the name of Islam. |
| Posted by: Incredulous 2014-11-11 04:22 |
| #1 Animals. Nothing but. And the outcry over this incident from the Muslim world (or anyone else for that matter) will start in five, four, three... |
| Posted by: Remoteman 2014-11-11 01:24 |