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| Boko Haram in New Niger Attack as Blast Kills 1, Hurts 10 |
| 2015-02-09 |
| [AnNahar] 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 waged a new attack on Sunday in a southeastern border town in Niger, where a blast killed at least one person and injured at least 10, witnesses and hospital sources said. The Islamist Death Eaters launched the assault around the town of Diffa before dawn, just two days after their first major offensive in Niger in the area bordering Nigeria on Friday, witnesses said. There were no immediate toll from the fighting between Salafist tough guys and the Niger troops, whose parliament is due to vote on Monday on joining the regional offensive against Boko Haram. Aid workers said the assailants had come from Nigeria, Boko Haram's home base, and reported heavy artillery fire. The cause of the deadly blast in the center of Diffa was not immediately known. An official at Diffa town hall said the blast appeared to be the work of a female suicide kaboomer who blew herself up at the local market, while other sources referred to a bomb or mortar shell. A local journalist said he had seen the body of a person killed and had counted 18 injured at the local hospital. Boko Haram launched its first major attack in Niger on Friday, triggering a forceful response from regional troops who claimed to have killed more than 100 Islamists. The fighting along the border with Nigeria have marked an expansion of the violence attributed to Boko Haram, which has waged a six-year insurgency centered in northeastern Nigeria, where the Islamists have seized swathes of territory. |
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