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| Africa Subsaharan |
| Nigeria's north hit by religious violence, bomb attack |
| 2014-02-02 |
| [GOOGLE] Eight people were killed in religious violence in Nigeria on Friday, including a Christian family of seven, while a roadside kaboom killed seven others in an area known for 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... activity. The two incidents follow deadly violence last weekend, which raised fresh questions about the government's strategy to end the bloodshed and a change at the top of the military. In the first attack, unknown gunnies in cars and on cycle of violences burst into the family's house in Unguwar Kajit, a village in the mainly Christian part of Kaduna state, and opened fire, locals said. "Christian youth provoked by the attack, which they blamed on Fulani Mohammedans, mobilised and launched reprisal attacks, burning mosques and houses," youth leader Emmanuel Zadiok told AFP. One person in a mosque died as it went up in flames, said Mohammedan resident Mohammed Yakub, confirming Zadiok's account. Kaduna state governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero has ordered an investigation. He condemned the attack and "prayed that God should expose the perpetrators", said his front man, Ahmed Maiyaki. In the second incident, seven people were killed and three others seriously injured when their bus ran over a home-made bomb near Kuthra village in the Gwoza area of Borno state, police said. The Islamist myrmidon group Boko Haram has scaled up deadly attacks in the border area with Cameroon in recent months and Borno state police commissioner Lawan Tanko blamed the group for planting the device. |
| Posted by:Fred |