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| Failed Suicide Attack in NE Nigeria Leaves Two Dead |
| 2015-07-02 |
| [AnNahar] A man and a woman apparently trying to target a hospital in northeast Nigeria ... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border... were killed Wednesday when explosives strapped to their bodies blew up, witnesses said. The kabooms took place in the village of Molai not far from the restive city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, where Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo was on a surprise visit. According to witness Babayo Ismail, one of the pair was a woman aged around 18 who was trying to find her way into Molai General Hospital. "She covered herself with a hijab and wanted to enter the hospital but was forced to stop while approaching the facility," he said. "I strongly feel that the explosives in her body were remotely controlled because while guards at the gate of the hospital were shouting at her, we heard a loud bang and that was the end of the whole thing, she was completely decapitated by her own explosive." A security official at the hospital who requested anonymity said the woman was also accompanied by a man aged around 20 on a bicycle. "When they were denied (entry), the explosives on their bodies detonated and killed them," he said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but 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... has used both men and young women and girls as human bombs in the past. The same hospital was also targeted Saturday when a jacket wallah went kaboom!outside, killing at least five people and leaving 10 maimed. Borno state has been the hardest hit by the Boko Haram insurgency, which has left at least 15,000 people dead and forced more than 1.5 million people to flee their homes since 2009. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Not to nit pick, but it only half failed. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2015-07-02 09:15 |