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Africa Subsaharan
Four suicide bombers kill two in northeast Nigeria's Maiduguri
2017-03-16
[Ynet] Four teenage jacket wallahs killed two people and injured 16 others in a residential area in the northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
n city of Maiduguri, a disaster agency front man said on Wednesday.

The girls knocked on the door of a house and then detonated their devices, a representative of the state-run emergency service in Borno State said.

The focus on individual homes is a new tactic.

The blasts in the Muna Garage area, on the edge of the city worst hit by jihadist 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...
's eight year insurgency, occurred around 1:15 a.m (0015 GMT), National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) front man Abdulkadir Ibrahim said.

"Four female teenage suicide bombers and two other men died," he said.
Al Ahram adds:
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said the blasts occurred in the Usmanti area on the outskirts of Maiduguri. Usmanti is near a sprawling camp for people who have been driven from the remote countryside by Boko Haram violence and, increasingly, the need for food.
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