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| Africa Subsaharan | |
| Suicide bomber explodes at Nigerian bus station, kills 4 | |
| 2015-05-17 | |
[Ynet] A jacket wallah went kaboom!and killed four hawkers Saturday at a bustling bus station in the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n town of Damaturu, witnesses said of the latest in a string of attacks this week by Nigeria's home-grown 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... krazed killers. Five bodies were brought to the hospital mortuary and 15 maimed people are being treated, according to a nurse who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to news hounds. Most victims are women and kiddies from among hawkers who sell smoked fish and packets of water at the exit gate to Damaturu Central Motor Park.
"A girl aged about 12 detonated an explosive under her clothes as she approached the station's perimeter fence," said Danbaba Nguru, a shopkeeper who witnessed the attack in the town of Damaturu. The head of the local Sani Abacha hospital, doctor Gara Fika, said six bodies and 32 injured had arrived there with one person dying after being admitted. The Damaturu bus station has been repeatedly targeted in a string of previous suicide attacks. "I was in the station when I saw the young girl arrive," said bus driver Musbahu Lawan. "I think she noticed the guards checking people at the gates and she decided to detonate the explosives in the middle of the crowd outside the gates." No claim of responsibility for the attack has been made but Islamist group Boko Haram has frequently used young girls to carry out suicide attacks. | |
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