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| 13 Dead in Triple Suicide Attacks in Nigeria's Chibok Town | |
| 2016-01-28 | |
| [AnNahar] At least 13 people were killed on Wednesday when three jacket wallahs blew themselves up in the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n town of Chibok, where 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... kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls. The blasts happened at about midday (1100 GMT) as the remote town in Borno state was packed with traders from surrounding villages for the weekly market, Chibok elder Ayuba Chibok told AFP. "Ten was struck down in his prime and another one died on the way to hospital," said health worker Dazzban Buba, who volunteered to treat the injured at hospital. "A woman and a child died as they were being admitted (to hospital), so now the corpse count stands at 13. Thirty others were maimed, 21 critically." The blasts bore the hallmarks of Boko Haram, which has repeatedly hit "soft" civilian targets such as markets, mosques and bus stations as well as military and civilian vigilante checkpoints. Chibok came to prominence in April 2014 when Islamist fighters stormed a boarding school and kidnapped 276 girls, causing global outrage. Fifty-seven girls managed to escape in the immediate aftermath but 219 are still being held and have not been seen since they appeared in a Boko Haram video in May that year.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group-allied rebels in November 2014 but recaptured by the military after several days. Ayuba Chibok and Buba both said Wednesday's blasts were suicide kabooms and had prompted terrified residents to lock themselves inside their homes or flee in fear of repeat attacks. "The first bomber set off his explosives at the checkpoint where people coming into the town were being searched," said the town elder. "A second bomber managed to get into the market and went kaboom!. A third bomber was identified and residents pursued him. "When he realized he was about to be apprehended he detonated his explosives in an area not far from the market." | |
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