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2 suicide bombers attempt New Year attacks in Nigerian city of Gombe, witnesses say
CNN ^ | January 1, 2015 | Aminu Abubakar

Posted on 01/01/2015 11:16:47 AM PST by ConservingFreedom

Kano, Nigeria (CNN) -- Several people were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a church in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on New Year's Day, residents and a rescue worker said Thursday.

It came only hours after a female suicide bomber was killed outside the Bolari military barracks, also in Gombe, on New Year's Eve, witnesses said.

The male bomber, who was on a motorcycle, struck outside an evangelical church in the Tudun Wada area of the city around 9 a.m. local time, as worshipers attended a New Year service.

The explosives strapped to his body detonated as he was having a heated argument with church volunteers who had set up a barricade some distance from the church to screen people and prevent any attack by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, according to Samson Luka, an eyewitness. [...]

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: religionofpeace

1 posted on 01/01/2015 11:16:47 AM PST by ConservingFreedom
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To: ConservingFreedom

More fun activities from the so called religion of peace....silly moslem...explosives are for grown ups!


2 posted on 01/01/2015 11:21:11 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: BCW

Well, the good news is that no humans were killed in these attacks.


3 posted on 01/01/2015 11:26:51 AM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: C210N

Yes..that is great news that no humans were injured...


4 posted on 01/01/2015 11:32:19 AM PST by BCW (ARMIS EXPOSCERE PACEM)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Happy New Year in hell fellow jihadi’s. Muzzie suicide with no victims is so sweet.


5 posted on 01/01/2015 11:32:36 AM PST by tflabo (Truth or tyranny, dontchyaknow.)
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To: ConservingFreedom

Satan must have gotten a chuckle when the male bomber asked for his 72 virgins.


6 posted on 01/01/2015 11:49:09 AM PST by Steely Tom (Thank you for self-censoring.)
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