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NIGERIA
- TWO FEMALE SUICIDE BOMBERS OVER TWO DAYS
By
IBRAHIM GARBA and HEATHER MURDOCK - Associated Press - July 28, 2014
Kano, Nigeria -A woman blew herself up at a petrol station in northern
Nigeria on Monday, killing three people in the second female suicide bombing in
Kano in two days, police said.
The woman was in line with other women, all wearing
traditional northern Nigerian dresses and long Muslim headscarves, waiting to
buy kerosene for cooking before she set off the bomb, said Tijjani Isa, an
attendant at the station.
"I was nearby the queue when I heard a heavy loud
(noise)," he said. "And immediately saw people running while others
went down."
The suicide bombing was one of five attacks in Kano in
two days, said police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia.
Another bomb blast went off across from a Shoprite
supermarket Monday, but no one was harmed.
On Sunday, a 15-year-old girl detonated a bomb near a
temporary university site, killing only herself, said Kano State Police
Commissioner Aderenle Shinaba. Five others were killed in a church bombing the
same day, he said, and a third bomb was discovered at a mosque before it
exploded, harming no one.
Three suspected Boko Haram militants were arrested
immediately after the church bombing, Shinaba said. Boko Haram has killed
thousands of people in five years of insurgency. The group has previously
targeted churches and mosques. Female suicide bombers are rare in Nigeria but
women seem to be playing an increasingly large role in the conflict after more
than 200 teenage girls were kidnapped in April.
The city of Kano has banned all public worship and
celebrations over the holiday marking the end of Ramadan that is currently
underway. Other northern Nigerian cities have banned personal vehicles, fearing
intensified violence over the holidays.
Kano is outside the region of northern Nigeria that has
been under emergency rule for more than a year, but it is a frequent target of
Boko Haram attacks. The group says it wants to impose its harsh version of
Islamic law on the region, but it often attacks mosques, sheiks and Muslim
civilians.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/27/us-cameroon-violence-boko-haram-idUSKBN0FW0CQ20140727
(Reuters) - Nigerian Boko Haram militants kidnapped the
wife of Cameroon's Vice Prime Minister and killed at least three people on
Sunday in a cross-border attack involving more than 200 assailants in the
northern town of Kolofata, Cameroon officials said........
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