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| Multiple blasts kill at least 54 people in northeast Nigeria |
| 2015-09-22 |
| [DAWN] Suspected hard boyz killed at least 54 people when they detonated bombs in crowded places Sunday night in Maiduguri, the capital of the Borno state in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... , members of a civilian defense group said on Monday. Around 43 people died in an attack on a mosque while 11 were killed in an attack on a market center, said the civilian defense force members, who insisted anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Nigerian military which has been deployed to guard civilians in the town. However, a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all... locals in the city said at least 85 people were killed in the series of bombings disputing a lower figure of 54 given by police. "I can assure you that no fewer than 85 people died," said resident Sabo Ahmed. "The figure given by the police is just the number of people taken to hospital. The Borno state police said earlier that 54 people had died in Sunday night's kabooms, which destroyed the Aljari Cross and Gomari areas of the city. There were four kabooms in the attacks; one in a mosque after evening prayers, another at a marketplace and two homemade explosives were thrown into a business center where people charge their phones and play video games, said a member of the civilian militia. The blasts occurred within 20 minutes, he said. |
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