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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Female bomber said to kill three in Nigeria’s Maiduguri |
| 2015-10-25 |
| [IsraelTimes] Ajacket wallah'> The bombing in the city's Dala Yazaram neighborhood happened a day after at least 55 people were killed in attacks in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , where jihadist group 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... is seeking to create a hardline Islamic state. Although no group has grabbed credit for Saturday's blast, immediate suspicion fell on Boko Haram. A local resident said he saw two "Three people have been killed and many injured. One of the bully boyz was tossed in the calaboose Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! before she could detonate," Shuaibu Umara, a security guard at a nearby petrol station, told AFP. In a conflicting account, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said one person, a member of a civilian vigilante group assisting the military in the fight against Boko Haram, was killed and 10 injured in the blast. NEMA front man Sani Datti said there had been four "Three of the Maiduguri has now been hit seven times this month, killing 79 people, according to an AFP tally, underscoring an increased risk to civilians after similar strikes in neighboring states and near the capital Abuja. On Friday, two kabooms destroyed mosques in Maiduguri and nearby Yola, capital of Adamawa state, leaving at least 55 people dead and more than 100 injured. The Yola kaboom took place shortly after the imam had finished a sermon to inaugurate the new mosque. Boko Haram has regularly targeted mosques and religious leaders who do not share their holy warrior ideology. NEMA's Adamawa coordinator Sa'ad Bello said Saturday the toll from the mosque attack had risen to 30 from 27 on Friday, with 93 others injured. Yola has been seen as a relatively safe haven from the Boko Haram insurgency, which has ravaged the northeast for the last six years, leaving at least 17,000 people dead and more than 2.5 million homeless. The military has claimed a series of successes against the jihadists, saying Saturday that troops had destroyed Boko Haram camps and enclaves at the border towns of Kerenowa and Chikun Gudu as well as neighboring villages in Borno state. "During the operation which is ongoing, troops discovered and destroyed over 20 well fortified terrorist camps in the general area of Kerenowa," the army said. |
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