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More Than 100 People Dead After Explosions Go Off At Nigerian Mosque
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Explosions killed more than 100 people as they gathered for Friday prayers in Nigeria’s northern city of Kano, said a nurse at the hospital where many of the dead were taken.
The death toll may rise when bodies that were taken to other hospitals in northern Nigeria’s biggest city have been counted, said the nurse, Ibrahim Shehu.
The central mosque in Kano, Nigeria, was attacked by bombs and gunmen during Friday prayers. Scores feared dead.
While no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out bomb and gun attacks in a five-year campaign to impose Islamic law in Nigeria.
“We have counted about 109 dead bodies at the Murtala general hospital alone, apart from the ones at Nasarawa and Bamalli hospitals,” Ibrahim Shehu said Friday in an interview at Murtala Mohammed General Hospital.
Two explosions went off on the premises of the central mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano followed by a third in the crowd of worshipers, said Saminu Hassan, a witness to the blasts.
“We have been evacuating the dead bodies and those that sustained injuries to Murtala General hospital using tricycles and buses,” said Abazarru Idriss.
Ishaya Chinoko, the coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja, the capital, said he couldn’t give casualty figures. “The rescue efforts are still ongoing,” he said by phone.
Police have confirmed 36 deaths, Sunusi Lemu, Kano’s acting police commissioner, told reporters.
The Kano attack followed an explosion in the city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, that didn’t injure anyone, a member of a vigilante group, Mohammed Ibrahim, said by phone from the northeastern city.
Yesterday, a roadside bomb killed 35 people in the northeastern town of Mubi, Young Moris, the head of a local group of hunters who’ve joined government forces in the battle against the Islamist militants said.
President Goodluck Jonathan said in September that Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed more than 13,000 people in its campaign to impose Islamic law in Nigeria.
Source: NY Daily News
The death toll may rise when bodies that were taken to other hospitals in northern Nigeria’s biggest city have been counted, said the nurse, Ibrahim Shehu.
The central mosque in Kano, Nigeria, was attacked by bombs and gunmen during Friday prayers. Scores feared dead.
While no group claimed responsibility for the explosions, the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has carried out bomb and gun attacks in a five-year campaign to impose Islamic law in Nigeria.
“We have counted about 109 dead bodies at the Murtala general hospital alone, apart from the ones at Nasarawa and Bamalli hospitals,” Ibrahim Shehu said Friday in an interview at Murtala Mohammed General Hospital.
Two explosions went off on the premises of the central mosque near the Emir’s palace in Kano followed by a third in the crowd of worshipers, said Saminu Hassan, a witness to the blasts.
“We have been evacuating the dead bodies and those that sustained injuries to Murtala General hospital using tricycles and buses,” said Abazarru Idriss.
Ishaya Chinoko, the coordinator of the National Emergency Management Agency in Abuja, the capital, said he couldn’t give casualty figures. “The rescue efforts are still ongoing,” he said by phone.
Police have confirmed 36 deaths, Sunusi Lemu, Kano’s acting police commissioner, told reporters.
The Kano attack followed an explosion in the city of Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, that didn’t injure anyone, a member of a vigilante group, Mohammed Ibrahim, said by phone from the northeastern city.
Yesterday, a roadside bomb killed 35 people in the northeastern town of Mubi, Young Moris, the head of a local group of hunters who’ve joined government forces in the battle against the Islamist militants said.
President Goodluck Jonathan said in September that Boko Haram, which means “Western education is a sin” in the Hausa language, has killed more than 13,000 people in its campaign to impose Islamic law in Nigeria.
Source: NY Daily News
