The bus was traveling along the Damboa-Maiduguri highway in the conflict-battered Borno state on Saturday when it drove over the bomb, Borno state police front man Nahum Daso said in a statement.
Islamic turbans with the 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...group took up arms in 2009 to fight Western education and impose their radical version of Islamic law. The conflict, Africa's longest struggle with militancy, has spilled into Nigeria's northern neighbors and has left some 35,000 civilians dead and more than 2 million displaced, according to the U.N..
The forces of Evil who once controlled dozens of villages in the region have mostly been pushed to remote forests and the fringes of the Lake Chad. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
they still carry out ambushes and rampant attacks on communities where security forces are outnumbered and outgunned.
The latest attack renewed fears among residents and travelers in the state.