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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 15 |
| 2013-09-06 |
| [GOOGLE] Gunmen suspected to be 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... Islamists stormed the northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... n town of Gajiran on Thursday, opening fire in a market and killing 15 people, residents said. Borno state in the northeast, Boko Haram's stronghold where the latest violence occurred, has seen a spate of similar attacks on locals in recent weeks. Gajiran residents speaking to journalists in the state capital Maiduguri said the gunnies pretended to be traders attending a local market. "Some of them came aboard trucks while others came on foot to beat the security checks at the entrance of the town," resident Ibrahim Bulama said. They then "blended among traders conducting business", before opening fire in the market, killing 15 people, he told news hounds. They also set fire to a local government building and a police post, he said. Another local speaking to journalists in Maiduguri, Aisami Yusuf, also put the corpse count at 15 and provided a similar account. Gajiran is roughly 85 kilometres (50 miles) from the capital. There has been no mobile phone service in Borno since the middle of May, when Nigeria declared a state of emergency across most of the northeast and launched an offensive aimed at crushing Boko Haram's insurgency. Details of attacks have been difficult to verify, with area police and military officers unreachable by phone. The military has said it switched off the phones to block the Islamists from coordinating attacks. |
| Posted by:Fred |