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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Gunman Opens Fire outside Nigeria School Injuring 12 |
| 2015-05-09 |
| [AnNahar] Friday outside a school in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... 's city of Potiskum, seriously wounding 12 students in an area repeatedly targeted by 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... , a police officer and witnesses said. "We have evacuated 12 people with serious gunshot wounds to hospital from the scene of the shooting attack," said the officer, who requested anonymity. Many students at the College of Administrative and Business Studies (CABS) in Potiskum, Yobe state, said the attacker with explosives strapped to his body went kaboom!when he ran out of ammunition, but the blast caused no other casualties. Following a wave of attacks in the city, including on schools and colleges, students at CABS must pass through security screening before entering the campus. The gunman fired on a crowd waiting at the gate to be screened shortly past 8:00 am (0700 GMT), witnesses said. "We had just started a class when we heard gunshots coming from the direction of the gates and we instantly realized we were under attack which made us to rush out of the class," student Tijjani Musa said. According to another student, Mustapha Umar, the gunman managed to pass through the gates amid the chaos that broke out after he began shooting. "He kept firing sporadic shots," but was chased by a group of students who were frantically trying to subdue him, said Umar. "When he ran out of ammunition he detonated the explosives under his robe, killing himself but no one from the crowd," Umar told AFP. While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, Potiskum has frequently been targeted by Boko Haram, which is responsible for leaving more than 15,000 people dead and another 1.5 million homeless since 2009. Nigeria's military has claimed a series of major victories over Boko Haram across the northeast during an operation launched in February with support from neighboring Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Chad and Niger. But experts say the forces of Evil remain capable of hit-and-run strikes, and may increasingly target soft civilian targets, despite being weakened by the military offensive. |
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