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Ramadan in Nigeria: At least 30 dead in triple Islamic State attacks

Jul 17, 2015 5:41 am By Robert Spencer

boko haramRamadan is the month in which Muslims are expected to renew and increase their devotion to Allah. Since jihad against non-Muslims is in Islamic theology an act of devotion to Allah, it becomes more virulent during Ramadan.

Boko Haram pledged allegiance to the Islamic State last February, and in April renamed itself the Islamic State in West Africa. “At least 30 dead in triple Islamist attack in NE Nigeria,” eKantipur.com, July 16, 2015:

KANO, NIGERIA, JUL 16 – At least 30 people were killed in three attacks by Islamists in northeastern Nigeria, local officials and inhabitants said Wednesday, days ahead of a meeting between President Muhammadu Buhari and Barack Obama.

The three assaults were carried out simultaneously Tuesday in Borno state, the epicentre of Boko Haram ‘s insurgency, and are part of a surge in Islamist violence since Buhari came to power on May 29.

Boko Haram has killed more than 660 people in a month and a half.

In the deadliest attack on Tuesday afternoon, more than 20 people were killed outside the town of Ngamdu, local legislator Mohammed Sando told AFP.

” Boko Haram gunmen… yesterday set up a barricade on the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway just outside Ngamdu, and attacked motorists. They killed over 20,” Sando said.

“They then moved to Ngamdu and began to set houses on fire. Last week they burnt almost half the village in a similar raid,” he added.

Haruna Kabil, a bus driver, said a large number of people from Ngamdu fled their homes after the attacks.

“Some houses in Ngamdu were smouldering when I passed this morning. I learned from some passengers I took from Ngamdu that Boko Haram invaded the village in the evening and began burning homes after attacking motorists on the highway. They said that many people were killed on the highway, by the attackers,” Kabil told AFP.

Near Baga, which is located northeast of Ngamdu, Boko Haram attacked residents who had decided to return home from state capital Maiduguri, where they had been living since January after fleeing one of the worst Boko Haram massacres in the group’s six-year insurgency.

“Yesterday, they chartered a lorry to (take) them to Baga. On reaching Garin-Giwa, which is just four kilometres (2.5 miles) from Baga, they were ambushed by Boko Haram gunmen who opened fire on the vehicle, forcing dozens of men inside to flee into the bush,” said Abubakar Gamandi, head of the fishermen’s union in Borno state.

“The gunmen however apprehended eight of the passengers and shot them in the head,” he added.

In Damasak, Boko Haram assailants set fire to the town and “opened fire on everyone they saw,” said local resident Buba Ari.

“We are now going through the burnt area looking for bodies. So far we have covered five.”…

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  1. Parousia says

    Jul 17, 2015 at 7:53 am

    The singular reason for which buhari won Nigeria’s election seems to be getting worse. I thought he would have reined in his Muslim brothers by now.
    How I miss obasanjo and I cry for my country.

  2. mortimer says

    Jul 17, 2015 at 9:30 am

    Islamists have been murdering about 1,000 Nigerian Christians a year since the 1990s. Now the death toll is 2,000 or 3,000 per year.

    The former head of the army, now president of Nigeria, is not doing much more to stop them than his predecessor.

    Life is cheap in Nigeria.

  3. Mark says

    Jul 18, 2015 at 8:35 am

    If Nigeria had anti gun laws, Boko Harem wouldn’t have any. 🙂

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