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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Five female suicide bombers killed 16 in double attack in Nigeria |
| 2017-06-20 |
| [AlAhram] At least 16 people died in a double suicide kaboom near a large camp for people made homeless by years of 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... violence, Nigeria's emergency services and locals said Monday. The bombing was one of a series of attacks in the conflict-hit region on Sunday which killed a total of 24 people, most of them civilians. In the attack, which took place on Sunday evening, two women blew themselves up in Kofa village which houses a large camp for those displaced by Boko Haram violence, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said. "They killed 16 people," said regional NEMA front man Abdulkadir Ibrahim. Kofa lies about 15 kilometres (nine miles) southeast of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state. Local residents gave an initial toll of 12 or 13 dead but the front man said three of the maimed had shuffled off the mortal coil in hospital. At around the same time, two more kabooms occurred inside the nearby Dalori 2 camp which is home to some 10,000 people, he said, indicating it was caused by another two female bombers. Several people were maimed but only the attackers died, he said, without saying how many were hurt. Dalori is home to two camps which together provide shelter for some 50,000 people displaced by the violence between Boko Haram and the Nigerian army. It is one of the largest camps for internally displaced people (IDP) in this remote region. |
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