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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Accidental Blast Kills 13 in NE Nigeria |
| 2015-06-18 |
| [AnNahar] At least 13 people were killed and 53 others injured in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... when an bomb detonated, a health official and vigilantes helping the military against 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... said Wednesday. The device was picked up by one of the vigilantes as they traveled back to the town of Monguno, in Borno state, from a military operation against the Islamists in Marte, 40 kilometers (26 miles) away. Salisu Kwaya Bura, chief medical director at the Maiduguri Specialist Hospital in Borno's state capital where the dead and injured were taken, said 13 people bit the dust. A total of 53 people were maimed, of whom 37 were later discharged, he told Borno state governor Kashim Shettima. Vigilante leader Abdullahi Amadu Bukar earlier told AFP that 12 members were killed in what he described as an "accidental kaboom". "We have brought seven of the dead to Maiduguri this morning (Wednesday) and left five others behind in Monguno," he said. The vigilantes had been fighting Boko Haram alongside troops in Marte when one of them picked up the bomb and brought it back to Monguno. It went kaboom!late on Tuesday as the civilian fighters were examining it on the outskirts of the town, said Bukar, whose account was backed up by another vigilante, Awwal Ibrahim. Nigeria's military claimed to have liberated Marte and Monguno in February after a ground and air campaign, but Bukar said Boko Haram had returned to Marte once troops withdrew. Elsewhere, a military truck accompanying technicians from a Nigerian power company to make repairs in the Damboa district of Borno on Monday hit a roadside kaboom believed to have planted by the rebels. Three soldiers were killed in the blast, forcing the team to abandon the mission and return to Maiduguri, 86 kilometers away, according to local vigilante sources. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Is this kind of thing in the future of the Evil Party and the Stupid Party? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-06-18 13:38 |