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| Nigerian blasts kill at least 25 |
| 2013-03-19 |
| Five explosions at a bus park in northern Nigeria's main city of Kano killed at least 25 people on Monday, a Reuters witness said, in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government. The coordinated bombing came as an audio tape emerged of a man saying he was the father of a family of seven French tourists kidnapped by Boko Haram militants. On the tape he read out a threat by them to increase kidnappings and suicide bombings in Cameroon, if authorities there detain more of the group's followers. Boko Haram, which wants to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, has killed hundreds in gun and bomb attacks since it intensified its insurgency two years ago, including 186 people killed in a coordinated strike on Kano in January 2012. They and other Islamist groups have become the main threat to Nigeria, Africa's top oil producer, and Western interests there, and increasingly menace neighbours like Cameroon. The blasts in Kano destroyed five buses in the Sabon Gari area, mostly inhabited by migrants from Nigeria's largely Christian southern Igo tribe, the Reuters witness said. Military and police cordoned off the area after the blasts. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but Boko Haram, which has frequently attacked the city, was a prime suspect. Security spokesman for Kano state, Ikedehia Iwehia, said dead and wounded had been evacuated, giving no figures. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Graphic photos |
| Posted by: tipper 2013-03-19 11:30 |
| #1 Real Islam coming to Africa? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-03-19 04:49 |