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| Africa Subsaharan |
| 47 Dead, 50 Hurt in Market Bomb Blast in NE Nigeria |
| 2015-08-12 |
| [AnNahar] At least 47 people were killed and dozens maimed in a kaboom Tuesday in a part of northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... frequently 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... Islamists, a medical source and witnesses said. The kaboom destroyed the weekly market in the village of Sabon Gari, around 135 kilometers (85 miles) south of Borno state capital Maiduguri, during peak trading around 1:15 pm (1230 GMT), the sources said. "We have received at least 47 dead bodies and at least 50 with injuries from the Sabon Gari market, where there was a blast this afternoon," a nurse at Biu General Hospital, around 50 kilometers (30 miles) away, told AFP. He said the injuries from the blast are mostly "severe" and that the corpse count was expected to rise. "The kaboom happened inside the market at the mobile phone section, near the livestock section of the market," said Yuram Bura, a member of a local vigilante group fighting Boko Haram alongside the army. "It was concealed in a napsack used for spraying herbicides. It was smuggled into the market and apparently abandoned... This is no doubt the handiwork of Boko Haram." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
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| Posted by: Sherry 2015-08-12 04:51 |
| #1 ... and how do you know this? Because of Rantburg..... Find that blue button to donate.... |
| Posted by: Sherry 2015-08-12 04:50 |