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| 29 killed as Boko Haram bombs market in Borno |
| 2014-03-25 |
| [NIGERIANEYE] Suspected members of the violent Islamic sect, 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... , have again bombed a market in Nguro-Soye, near Bama, Borno State, killing no fewer than 29 persons. Rooters reported on Sunday that the attack on the market was said to have been carried out on Saturday night. "I travelled to Bama to buy bags of beans. Suddenly, there was a deafening bang at the middle of the market. It was in the late afternoon and commercial activities were at their peak," said Shuaibu Abdulahi, a trader at the market. He estimated the corpse count to be as high as 29. Abba Tahir, a bus driver who was said to be offloading passengers at the market during the incident, said he counted 20 bodies. "People were helping in evacuating the corpses after the confusion had died down. Some people who were maimed were taken to the general hospital," Tahir added. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack yet as of the time of this report. Borno State Police Commissioner,, Mr. Lawal Tanko, who confirmed the incident, was quoted as saying, "An kaboom in the market in Nguro-Soye killed 17 people." Bama is a border town and the headquarter of the Bama Local Government Area of Borno State. It is about 135 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital. The town is not new to attacks by the Boko Haram myrmidons. The 202 Army Battalion Barracks located in the town was hit by Boko Haram in December 2013. Several women and kiddies, mostly wives and wards of soldiers, who battled the snuffies for over seven hours, were killed in the attack launched at about 3 am. On February 19 this year, the snuffies also attacked Bama.Confirming the February attack, Governor Kashim Shettima had said the attackers "inflicted a lot of damage on the town." A Borno State senator, Ahmed Zanna, had then told the BBC that the attack on Bama lasted for five hours. |
| Posted by:Fred |