A suicide bomber who targeted a major Shiite festival in Yobe, northeast Nigeria on Monday killed 15 people and injured some 50 others
“We lost 15 of our members in a suicide blast at the end of our Ashura procession,” said Mustapha Lawan Nasidi, the head of the Shiite community in the targeted city of Potiskum in Yobe state.
He said that 50 people were also injured and claimed that several others died when troops who deployed to the scene opened fire. There was no immediate response from the military.
NigerianEye gathered that the bomber struck when members of the Shiite were gathering to go on a procession to mark the Ashura day
Ashura day is the tenth day of the month of Muharram, the new month of the Islamic calendar.
Shiite Muslims commemorate the day to mourn the death of Hasain Bn Ali, the grand son of Prophet Mohammed who was reportedly killed on that day.
As the faithful were about embarking on the procession, the bomber got into their midst and detonated his bomb, witnesses say.
Potiskum is the largest town outside Damaturu, the Yobe state capital.
Although, the town had witnessed several bomb and gun attacks from members of the Boko Haram sect in the past, it has of recent enjoyed relative peace.
That has now been punctured by today’s bombing.
Efforts to speak with the spokespersons of both the Police and the Joint Task Force, JTf, in the state were unsuccessful.
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ISLAM! Just two sects SHUNIs and SHIITE, yet they KILL THEMSELVES FOOLISHLY. I wonder what wld happened if ISLAM has several sects just as CHRISTEMDOM where we have OVER 100 DENOMINATIONS them go just KILL THEMSELVES FINNISH.
ReplyDeleteMUMU PEOPLE with KILL, KILL, KILL attitude.