More than 60 people killed in suicide bombs in Nigeria: officials

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

More than 60 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at a camp in northern Nigeria for people displaced by an insurgency of the jihadist Boko Haram group, a military and emergency official said on Wednesday.

The attack took place some 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, center of the seven-year insurgency, they said. It took place on Tuesday, but a breakdown in the telephone system had prevented the information being made public earlier.

(Reporting by Lanre Ola; Writing by Ulf Laessing; Editing by Dominic Evans)


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nigeria-violence-idUSKCN0VJ265

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World | Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:07pm EST
MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA

Short article. No more at link.

[Akicita]

1. Short article. Can you imagine the wall to wall coverage if this happened in France.

Sad that Africans just aren't that important.

[maxsolomon]

3. Not a fair comment

this is a very remote area, not the cultural capital of the planet. do you remember #bringbackourgirls? that was wall-to-wall coverage.

what would you have the West do to defeat Boko Haram? the bombers were women.

[Akicita]

4. I don't know why it should be the West. The UN should wipe out Boko Haram like

they would a disease.

[maxsolomon]

5. OK, then what do you want the UN to do?

they go into regions to keep the peace, not to engage in conflicts offensively.

http://www.cfr.org/peacekeeping/peace-operations-africa/p9333

and they aren't that great at eliminating diseases, either.

[Recursion]

7. For that matter they have a history of spreading them (nt)

[MariaThinks]

2. so does anyone believe that radical islam has any sense of humanity?

[Recursion]

6. Young female bombers

Suicide-Bomber Girls Kill 58 in Nigerian Refugee Camp

When three girls showed up Monday at a camp for people who had fled the militant group Boko Haram, they were welcomed and offered a place to sleep.

But early Tuesday morning, as the first light spread across the sprawling camp, two of the girls blew themselves up with bombs they had been concealing, killing 58 people and wounding 78.

The victims were among the more than 50,000 people who had been forced from their homes by Boko Haram’s rampages, only to be confronted with the same horror in the very place they had sought refuge.

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Yet Tuesday’s attack could have been worse. One of the would-be bombers recognized her parents and siblings in the camp and decided not to detonate her device, according to Sani Datti of Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency. Instead, the girl surrendered to the authorities and warned that future attacks were being planned for the camp, according to other emergency officials.