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2021-05-11 Africa Subsaharan
Gunmen storm mosque, abduct 40 worshipers in Nigeria
[EN.MEHRNEWS] Unidentified button men in the Nigerian State of Katsina kidnapped 40 worshipers and maimed a great number of them as well.

According to Nigerian media, a group of unidentified button men attacked a mosque in Katsina State in Nigeria and kidnapped 40 worshipers.

A large number of worshipers were also injured in the attack, Anadolu news agency reported.

According to this report, this attack occurred in the course of performing prayers by Moslems in "Kwata" district in Nigerian State of Katsina.

Katsina state police front man Gambo Isah said heavily armed button men attacked the mosque at around 2:00 a.m. local time (0100GMT) and kidnapped 40 people busy in midnight worship (special night prayers during Ramadan).

Isah said 30 of the kidnapped persons have been rescued, while efforts are on to recover the remaining 10, adding the button men might have taken them to Rugu Forest.

The dreaded Rugu Forest serves as a hideout for bandidos terrorizing Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna states and spans over 220 kilometers (137 miles), stretching from the Niger Republic and spreading into a substantial part of Katsina state of Nigeria.

However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
no individual or group has grabbed credit for the attack but such attacks are carried out by Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group ’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...
’ in this country.

Boko Haram declared its existence in 2000 and has killed more than 20,000 people since 2009 through acts of violence.

The terrorist group has been carrying out terrorist attacks in Cameroon
...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there...
, Benin, Chad, Niger and Nigeria since 2015. At least 2,000 people have been killed in the group's attacks on Lake Chad.

Posted by Fred 2021-05-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ]  Top
 File under: Boko Haram (ISIS) 

#1 So BoHa has run out of accessible Christians and Animists, and has moved on to 'wrong-thinking' kinds of Muslims?
Posted by Glenmore 2021-05-11 13:36||   2021-05-11 13:36|| Front Page Top










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