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Mosque attack in northern Nigeria leaves 8 people dead. Police say the motive was a family dispute
ABC ^ | May 16, 2024 | CHINEDU ASADU

Posted on 05/19/2024 9:06:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Police in Nigeria say at least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured in northern Nigeria’s Kano state after a man with a locally made explosive attacked the mosque where they were praying early Wednesday morning

At least eight worshippers were killed and 16 others injured early Wednesday morning after a man attacked a mosque with a locally made explosive in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, resulting in a fire outbreak, the police said. The suspect, a 38-year-old local resident, confessed that he attacked the mosque in Kano’s remote Gadan village “purely in hostility following (a) prolonged family disagreement,” police spokesman Abdullahi Haruna said in a statement on Wednesday. The suspect invaded the mosque with “a locally prepared bomb and exploded it,” local police chief Umar Sanda told reporters. “It has nothing to do with terrorism."

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“The disagreement (was) over sharing of inheritance of which those that (the attacker) alleged to have cheated on him were in the mosque at that moment and he did that for his voice to be heard,” the police statement said.

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1 posted on 05/19/2024 9:06:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.


2 posted on 05/19/2024 9:10:06 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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They went tribal


3 posted on 05/19/2024 9:16:24 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

Was it a dispute over dipping sauce?


4 posted on 05/19/2024 9:29:53 PM PDT by PGR88
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The US has several stories a year (many but not all from Chicago) of family parties and gatherings that end with “shootings claim 5 dead and 21 wounded in family argument.”

Nothing new.


5 posted on 05/20/2024 1:00:00 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: nickcarraway

Aloha Snackbar?


6 posted on 05/20/2024 2:10:47 AM PDT by Tom Tetroxide
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“The disagreement (was) over sharing of inheritance ..."

A Nigerian Prince? My deposit is going to be delayed AGAIN?

7 posted on 05/20/2024 3:39:50 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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- A Nigerian Prince? My deposit is going to be delayed AGAIN?

Are you waiting too? I can't believe it takes them so long. ;-)

8 posted on 05/20/2024 6:18:04 AM PDT by ken in texas
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