... 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...jihadists were killed on Tuesday when a jacket wallah detonated his explosives in northeast Nigeria
... a particularly crimson stretch of Islam's bloody border...
, an emergency official and force member told AFP.
A man carried out the bombing at a checkpoint manned by the militia, known as the Civilian Joint Task Force, on the outskirts of Konduga, 35 kilometres southeast from the Borno state capital of Maiduguri.
"Five members of the Civilian Joint Task Force were killed in a suicide kaboom in Mandarari outskirts of Konduga town... at a checkpoint," said Abdukadir Ibrahim, front man for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in Borno state.
"Five people were also injured in the incident which occurred when the suicide bomber detonated the concealed IED (improvised bomb) as he was being searched at the checkpoint," said Ibrahim.