Bombings and Attacks Killed – 150 in Series of Attacks in Nigeria
by The death toll from a series of attacks in northern Nigeria is obviously much higher than previously indicated. During the bomb attacks on Friday evening in the city Damaturu were around 150 people were killed, said a representative of the rescue services of the AFP.
Many guards have come from raids and bomb attacks in Nigeria killed.
He has been there at the transport of the dead bodies to the mortuary and has counted the corpses personally. Some of them have been collected and buried by their relatives by now, though. An AFP reporter had counted before 97 dead bodies in the mortuary briefly. The Red Cross reported of 63 victims till now. It came into and around to the attacks dramatic adviser, the capital of the state of Yobe, like the red cross employee declared Ibrahim Bulama on Saturday. The series had started with the explosion of a car bomb on Friday in front of a three-storied building of the town which was used by the defense forces. Many watchmen have been killed. Men armed according to information from Bulama moved through the town later, blew up a branch of a bank and three police stations and some churches attacked at least. The buildings were wrecked. In the night men attacked a village nearby the capital and killed at least two people according to information from eyewitnesses. On the Saturday morning the people left in hesitant their houses, dramatic adviser looked at the destruction. You buried the dead bodies and started with the clearing works. Bulama said by phone from the town which people feared that it could come to force again.
Location of the Attack in northern Nigeria
Although nobody confessed the attacks, the suspicion of the sect Boko Haram which is held responsible for numerous attacks in the Muslim north of Nigeria fell. Last year more than 240 people were killed. Four bombs had exploded in Maiduguri, about 130 eastern of Damaturu, on Friday before. Aims were a theological training centre and a military base. The chief constable explained four people have been killed. Eyewitnesses told to the news agency AP at least six people had been injured. In August, the Boko Haram confessed a suicide attack on the headquarters of the united nations in the Nigerian capital Abuja at which 24 people were killed.
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