BREAKING NEWS: Suspected Boko Haram Islamists Kill 23 In Two Nigeria Attacks
Gunmen killed 23 people in northern Nigeria in attacks that appeared to target gamblers and people selling 'forbidden' meat that Isl...
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Gunmen killed 23 people in northern Nigeria in attacks that appeared to target gamblers and people selling 'forbidden' meat that Islamist militants disapprove of, officials and locals said on Tuesday.
In the deadliest attack, late on Monday, gunmen opened fire at a market in the town of Damboa, targeting local hunters who sell bush meat from animals such as monkeys and pigs, which strict Muslims are forbidden to eat, a local official said.
"Gunmen suspected to be members of BH (Islamist sect Boko Haram) came to the town market and shot dead 13 local hunters on the spot while five others died from their injuries at the hospital," Alhaji Abba Ahmed said. "They came to the market in a Volkswagen Golf car, carried out the operation and left."
In a separate attack in the north's biggest city of Kano, some 500 km (310 miles) west of Damboa, on Tuesday, suspected Boko Haram members riding on motorbikes shot dead five people playing an outdoor board game, witnesses and a hospital source who received the bodies said. Two others were wounded.
Damboa is in the remote northeast, the sect's heartland near the borders with Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
Boko Haram wants to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, a country of 170 million people split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. The insurgency is seen as the top security threat to Africa's leading oil and gas producer.
Nigeria plans to deploy around 1,200 troops as part of a West African intervention force to combat Islamist militants occupying the north of Mali, and officials fear Nigeria's involvement could further inflame its own insurgency.
Reuters
"Gunmen suspected to be members of BH (Islamist sect Boko Haram) came to the town market and shot dead 13 local hunters on the spot while five others died from their injuries at the hospital," Alhaji Abba Ahmed said. "They came to the market in a Volkswagen Golf car, carried out the operation and left."
In a separate attack in the north's biggest city of Kano, some 500 km (310 miles) west of Damboa, on Tuesday, suspected Boko Haram members riding on motorbikes shot dead five people playing an outdoor board game, witnesses and a hospital source who received the bodies said. Two others were wounded.
Damboa is in the remote northeast, the sect's heartland near the borders with Niger, Cameroon and Chad.
Boko Haram wants to carve an Islamic state out of Nigeria, a country of 170 million people split roughly evenly between Christians and Muslims. The insurgency is seen as the top security threat to Africa's leading oil and gas producer.
Nigeria plans to deploy around 1,200 troops as part of a West African intervention force to combat Islamist militants occupying the north of Mali, and officials fear Nigeria's involvement could further inflame its own insurgency.
Reuters
There action is all to the glory of allah and its prophet Mohammed
ReplyDeleteAre u alright?
Deleteur reply seems suspicious; how can one kills his fellow human being and what u have to say is dat its all to d glory of allah? Is allah a blood tasty deity? I need an answer pls
DeleteYa Allah. We know what these people are doing is by far contrary to your religion. There is nothing we can do but to pray to you and wait for ending of the situation which was not ever faced by Muslim of any Nation. Ya Allah if it is our fault forgive us to restore peace in our Country. Amin, Ya Allah.
ReplyDeleteInnalillahi wa inna ilahirrajiun. May the of all theses matyrs rest in oeace. There is nothing we can say. Whoever is raking the life of an innocent person should be ready to face Allah on the day of judgement.
ReplyDeleteoh lord God why not start now to avenge the blood of this innocent nigerians dat were killed by dis blood-tasty islamic sect called bokoharam cos there sins are many. Why is it dat a common man(citizen) of dis great country like ours cease to know peace because of insurgency in d country?
ReplyDeleteThe above, who said "the action is to the glory of allah and its prophet Mohammed" is certainly not a muslim. The muslims write the name Allah with a capital "A" and no muslim will write the name Mohammed or Muhammad without adding (SAW) which means "May the peace and blessings of Allah be with him". The words "its prophet..." betrays who he really is.
ReplyDeleteMay the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of GOD, rest in peace, Amen.
ReplyDeleteTo the guy that said to the glory of Allah, you are just a fanatic with a water brain coz I have stayed with reasonable Muslims fro years.
ReplyDeleteNote it, if you are a part of those blood suckers before the end of the first-quarter of this year you would be 6feet under the ground. Except if the God that has made heaven, the earth and everything in it is not the one that has made all those who have been killed by these retarded group of people called BOKO HARAM.
The God of vengeance will bring upon you all is judgement.