A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014 from a video released by Boko Haram
shows the group leader Abubakar Shekau and his fighters. A suicide bomb
attack targeting a political meeting killed seven people in northeast
Nigeria's Potiskum city on Sunday. PHOTO | AFP
AFP
A suicide bomb attack targeting a political meeting killed seven
people in northeast Nigeria's Potiskum city on Sunday, just two weeks
from national elections, witnesses and a police officer told AFP.
"We
have evacuated eight bodies including the suicide bomber's to
hospital," said a police officer at the scene, who requested anonymity
as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Witness
Nura Umar, who gave the same death toll, said the bomber emerged from a
bus that pulled up in front of the home of a prominent local politician
from the ruling Peoples Democratic
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