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| Boko Haram blamed after road attack in the Northeast |
| 2016-09-14 |
| [NEWS24.NG] 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... was on Sunday blamed for an attack on motorists which left one person dead and underlined the Islamist group's continuing security threat to civilians. Gunmen on Saturday opened fire on a convoy of vehicles travelling to Maiduguri, from Monguno, 140 kilometres to the northeast. "They rubbed out a driver and injured two women and a child travelling with him," said bus driver Kabir Hassan, who arrived at the scene shortly after the attack. The victims were heading to Maiduguri to celebrate the Moslem festival of Eid al-Adha on Monday and the vehicles included traders in a pick-up truck packed with rams for the annual ritual sacrifice. The traders abandoned their animals when the shooting started and the rams were seized by the rebels, said driver Abba Gana, who gave a similar toll of death and injuries. A car abandoned by fleeing travellers was torched in the attack and the maimed taken to a hospital in Maiduguri for treatment, Hassan and Gana said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Ah, banditry. A far cry from nearly taking over a third of that misbegotten country. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2016-09-14 10:59 |