Sunday, February 1, 2015

Suicide bombing in northeast Nigeria kills 7: police, witnesses

A screengrab taken on July 13, 2014 from a video released by the Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram and obtained by AFP shows the leader of the Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau (C). FILE PHOTO | BOKO HARAM
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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