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| Africa Subsaharan |
| 77 Dead In Attacks On Nigerian Cities |
| 2014-12-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] At least 77 people died in attacks by suspected Islamic forces of Evil who struck two northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n state capitals, health workers said Tuesday. The deaths from Monday's attacks bring the toll to at least 247 people reported killed in a week of increasing violence from an Islamic uprising in the northeast of Africa's biggest oil producer. Double suicide kabooms at a bustling market in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, killed at least 16 people, according to workers at two hospitals who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to news hounds. The bodies included those of the two young women who set off the kabooms. Two other young women blew themselves up at the same market last week, killing at least 70 people. In Damaturu, the Yobe state capital, the corpses of 33 coppers, six soldiers and 20 members of 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... holy warrior group were brought to the hospital, according to a morgue worker, who also insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. The casualties indicate heavy fighting after scores of Death Eaters invaded the town before dawn Monday and fought for several hours. The heavy fighting prevented the attackers from taking the governor's office, which includes a military armory, said residents. Several buildings were bombed and destroyed, including a rapid-response police base and several structures at the university and the hospital residential compound, said police. Two doctors were killed and three kidnapped in the attack on their residential compound, reported the Hospital Management Board. Yobe Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam praised security forces for doing "a great job," in a statement issued Tuesday by his office. The Death Eaters were driven off in part by strafing and bombing by an Air Force fighter jet and a helicopter gunship, according to the Defense Ministry headquarters and witnesses. Gaidam declared a 24-hour curfew in Damaturu as soldiers combed the town for any remaining holy warriors. Damaturu is about 135 kilometers (85 miles) west of Maiduguri. Thousands of people have been killed and 1.6 million driven from their homes in the 5-year-old insurgency by Boko Haram, the West African's nation's homegrown Islamic holy warrior group that is holding a couple dozen cities and towns along Nigeria's northeast border where it has declared an Islamic caliphate. |
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