A mob in northeastern Nigeria has beaten a woman to death and burnt her body over suspicion she was planning to carry out a suicide bombing, police and witnesses have said.
Witnesses said the victim and a second woman had refused to be searched at the entrance of the largest market in the city of Bauchi on Sunday morning.Bauchi state police spokesman Haruna Mohammed described the slain woman as the victim of "mob action carried out by an irate crowd".
It seemed doubtful the woman was actually a bomber as she did not detonate any explosives when she was attacked, Mohammed said.
He said police had deployed to the scene to disperse the mob but the woman died before officers could rescue her. None of the attackers were arrested, he said.
However, the second woman who allegedly refused to be searched was arrested, the Associated Press reported. The news agency said both women were teenagers.
Vegetable vendor Mohd Adamu told the AP that when the women refused to be screened, people overpowered one girl and discovered she had two bottles strapped to her body. They clubbed her to death, put a tyre doused in fuel over her head and set it on fire, he said.
A spate of suicide bombings has been blamed on Nigeria's Boko Haram group, which wants to enforce strict Islamic law in the north.
Recently some girls as young as 10 years old have been used to carry explosives that detonated in busy markets and bus stations. It is unclear whether the girls detonated explosives themselves or whether the bombs were controlled remotely.
About 10,000 people died in Nigeria from Boko Haram's violence last year, compared to 2,000 in the first four years of the group's armed campaign, according to the US Council on Foreign Relations. About 1.5 million people have been driven from their homes.
Aljazeera
Monday, March 2, 2015
Friday, February 27, 2015
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Suicide bombings in Jos and Biu kill 35 people
At least 35 people were killed on Thursday in two attacks in the northeast Nigerian town of Biu and central Nigerian city of Jos, according to residents and the military.
In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at Tashar Gandu bus station on the outskirts of the town of Biu in northeast Nigerian Borno state, killing 18 people and injuring six others.
A second bomber was mobbed and killed before he could detonate his explosives at the scene of the carnage, residents and local vigilantes said.
"We have received 18 dead bodies from the scene of the suicide explosion along with six injured victims," said a nurse at the Biu General Hospital who asked not to be named to protect her safety.
"The two men came to the bus station around 2:55 p.m. pretending to be traders intending to take a bus back to their village and one of them detonated his explosives among a group of passengers waiting to board a bus," local vigilante Ahmad Girema said.
"He killed 18 people, including three women. His accomplice was, however, restrained by the crowd around before he could pull the trigger ... and (he was) beaten to death," Girema said.
His account was supported by Laminu Kolo, a driver at the bus station.
An angry mob later doused the body of the failed bomber with gasoline and set it alight from a distance, causing the unexploded devices on him to explode, Kolo said.
Hours later, 17 people were killed in the central city of Jos when explosives were thrown on two crowds from a moving car.
"There were twin explosions along Bauchi Road this evening, which killed 17 people and injured some others," said Iweaha Ikedichi, military spokesman in the city.
Ikedichi declined to provide details of the incident.
However, witnesses said two explosives were thrown at an open-air bus station along Bauchi Road, killing five people and injuring several others.
"There was a heavy downpour today and soon after the rains stopped, a car drove along the road and two explosives were thrown at the motor park, which killed five people," said Sagir Badaru, a driver at the Bauchi Road bus station.
"The car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many," Badaru said.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, Boko Haram Islamists, who have carried out deadly bombings in Biu and Jos, are the prime suspects.
The Islamists are believed to be behind a recent spate of suicide bombings and attacks in parts of the north in response to a sweeping offensive on Boko Haram strongholds in northeast Nigeria by a regional alliance of troops from Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
CNN
In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at Tashar Gandu bus station on the outskirts of the town of Biu in northeast Nigerian Borno state, killing 18 people and injuring six others.
A second bomber was mobbed and killed before he could detonate his explosives at the scene of the carnage, residents and local vigilantes said.
"We have received 18 dead bodies from the scene of the suicide explosion along with six injured victims," said a nurse at the Biu General Hospital who asked not to be named to protect her safety.
"The two men came to the bus station around 2:55 p.m. pretending to be traders intending to take a bus back to their village and one of them detonated his explosives among a group of passengers waiting to board a bus," local vigilante Ahmad Girema said.
"He killed 18 people, including three women. His accomplice was, however, restrained by the crowd around before he could pull the trigger ... and (he was) beaten to death," Girema said.
His account was supported by Laminu Kolo, a driver at the bus station.
An angry mob later doused the body of the failed bomber with gasoline and set it alight from a distance, causing the unexploded devices on him to explode, Kolo said.
Hours later, 17 people were killed in the central city of Jos when explosives were thrown on two crowds from a moving car.
"There were twin explosions along Bauchi Road this evening, which killed 17 people and injured some others," said Iweaha Ikedichi, military spokesman in the city.
Ikedichi declined to provide details of the incident.
However, witnesses said two explosives were thrown at an open-air bus station along Bauchi Road, killing five people and injuring several others.
"There was a heavy downpour today and soon after the rains stopped, a car drove along the road and two explosives were thrown at the motor park, which killed five people," said Sagir Badaru, a driver at the Bauchi Road bus station.
"The car threw another explosive in the midst of grocers outside the main bus station some hundreds of meters away, killing 12 people and wounding many," Badaru said.
Although no one has claimed responsibility for the attacks, Boko Haram Islamists, who have carried out deadly bombings in Biu and Jos, are the prime suspects.
The Islamists are believed to be behind a recent spate of suicide bombings and attacks in parts of the north in response to a sweeping offensive on Boko Haram strongholds in northeast Nigeria by a regional alliance of troops from Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
CNN
Thursday, February 26, 2015
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Chinese construction worker kidnapped in Nasarawa, Nigeria
Gunmen on Tuesday kidnapped a Chinese National, Chui Fu Long, the police in Nasarawa State have said.
Mr. Long works with a construction company in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The state police spokesperson, Ismaila Numan, said that security agencies have commenced a search and rescue mission to ensure the release of the Chinese.
Mr. Numan explained that officers of Command are ensuring that the culprits are apprehended and the expatriate released as soon as possible.
He appealed to members of the public to avail the police any information that will lead to immediate release of the kidnapped man.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that about seven gunmen stormed the Adadu construction site at about 4:30 p.m. shooting sporadically in the air before kidnapping the expatriate.
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Mr. Long works with a construction company in Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State.
The state police spokesperson, Ismaila Numan, said that security agencies have commenced a search and rescue mission to ensure the release of the Chinese.
Mr. Numan explained that officers of Command are ensuring that the culprits are apprehended and the expatriate released as soon as possible.
He appealed to members of the public to avail the police any information that will lead to immediate release of the kidnapped man.
PREMIUM TIMES gathered that about seven gunmen stormed the Adadu construction site at about 4:30 p.m. shooting sporadically in the air before kidnapping the expatriate.
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