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| Woman suicide bomber 'kills several' in Nigerian market |
| 2014-11-17 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A female jacket wallah blew herself up Sunday at a mobile phone market in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , killing several people, witnesses said. The attack happened in the town of Azare in Bauchi state, which neighbors the three states worst hit by attacks from 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. Residents said a man who had been seen with the woman at the market was killed by an angry mob. "A suicide bomber came into the market as it was closing and blew herself up in the middle of all the merchants and their customers," a witness said. "I saw at least eight dead. Several other people were maimed," another witness, Alyu Habib, told AFP. "She came in the company of two men and she detonated the explosives concealed under her dress," he said. "The two men tried to flee but they were pursued and apprehended. One of them was lynched to death whereas the other is now in jug," Habib added. A third witness confirmed that one of the two men spotted entering the market with the woman "was killed by the angry mob." He said the "kaboom set the shops on fire" and firefighters were working to douse the inferno. The attack near Azare's stadium is the third bombing in the town in recent weeks. Last week, a bomb concealed in a bag went off near a cash dispensing machine, killing several people. On Oct. 23, a bombing near a bus station killed at least five people. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 It amazes me that angry mobs are so rare in response to these kinds of attacks. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-11-17 07:47 |