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AT LEAST FIVE people were killed and six others injured in a night-time Boko Haram raid and suicide attack on a village in northeastern Nigeria.
A male suicide bomber detonated his explosives among a group of residents sleeping in the open in Tungushe village in Borno state at about 12:15 am.
The blast was followed by indiscriminate gunfire from Boko Haram jihadists lurking in the dark, said Mustapha Muhammad, a civilian militia leader in the area.
“Five people have been killed and six others injured in the attack,” Muhammad said by telephone from the village, which lies six kilometres (nearly four miles) north of the Borno state capital, Maiduguri.
Tungushe resident Umara Kyari, who gave a similar casualty toll, said the attackers torched eight thatched houses and three vehicles before stealing about 100 cows.
“Fortunately all the cows returned to the village,” said Kyari. “I think the attackers are not used to herding cows and could not control them.”
Boko Haram regularly uses suicide bombers, mostly women and young girls, to target mosques, schools, bus stations and military locations.
Its nine-year armed violence to establish a hardline Islamic state in remote northeastern Nigeria has killed more than 20,000 people.
Suicide attacks have increased in Borno state recently, prompting the military commander fighting the jihadists to offer a five-million-naira (€11,913) reward for information on bomb-making factories in the region.
On 16 June, six young girls killed 43 people in suicide attacks in the town of Damboa, 80 kilometres southwest Maiduguri.
On Wednesday, 15 people were injured when two female suicide bombers targeted a market on the edge of a military base in the city.
Nigeria’s army said troops on patrol in the Mafa area, east of Maiduguri, had come across “pockets of fleeing Boko Haram terrorists” yesterday.
“The gallant troops… overpowered the terrorists, killing even of them and recovered weapons,” it said on Twitter.
The insurgents are believed to have carried out an attack in Zabarmari village, also in the Mafa area, on Thursday, according to a civilian militia source.
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Probably on his way back to Nigeria now
Really? He could be from north Dublin you know?
Lol.
or little Nigeria.?
(Littlepace, Dublin 15)
There are 160 milion Nigerians in Nigeria.
Some of those who arrive on our shores actually work for a living..
Will claim he is a vp for visa.
Yea some of them, when it should be all of them .. or go back home and be a bum there
Working the game.. most corrupt nation on earth
But they dont NEED to….
You smoking again Peter? Hmmm k
Fraudsters from Nigeria??
Did they do the Rush/Lusk Credit Union too or was that ours because we’re pretty good at ripping people off, just ask that oul wan that took the ‘Social Farewell’ for €200,000 plus and only got a suspended sentence.
Im Nigerian… the money was 370, 70 already in Nigeria.
No need to cry about it, the money belongs to an italian!
How you like us now?
She was from Nigeria…just a bad sun burn. (:
why people disliking my comment? I thought yous Irish lot like humor!
Its only 370, dont cry, wipe your eyes :)
An for the fraud ol lady…shes one of us?
Or Dail Eireann.
Or the Dail.
And at least 159 million of them are Princes who have vast sums of cash resting in their accounts who would be very grateful if you would just hold onto a couple of million for a week or 2.
Yeh right !!!!
You wrong my Irish friend, we are 200m strong…and Multiplying. (:
You are right, we have 159m prince. Since yous are good with management, we offers you to mind our millions, just like the italian minding the 300k. :)
Now, whats the problem with that?
and he’s gone…
He should have been elected then do it then he could claim it was an anomaly or he wasn’t aware it was someone else’s account or he couldn’t remember his password.
The money was only resting in the account.
And because of his rough upbringing, his addictions, gambling problems, and 406 previous convictions, a suspended sentence will seem fitting.
If he is that plausible a trickster why is he not in Dail Eireann with the rest.?
This kind of trickery is far too advanced for our buffoons in parliament.
He should just claim his English isn’t very good.
Does that only work for Italians in from of Judge Martin Nolan or is that for all non English speakers and all judges??
He’s an idiot…who withdraws such an amount at a go?
The Italian man is a bigger one..
How did he think he could walk into a bank to ask to withdraw 300k and for it not to raise any alarm bells is the best part. Makes me feel better that we have those kinda ppl in the world
Whats the odds he is one of our “New Irish” with his lovely vibrant culture.
“Released without charge” ??
Preparing a file for the DPP is a bit of a waste of time, surely.
No room in the Joy for hard working,ordinary decent scammers.
It doesn’t even come close to the 20% deposit for the house in Foxrock.
He should be made CEO of Irish Water.
I just knew give it long enough and some Idiot will mention Irish Water.
Anyone know what Ivor is up to these days?
Most probably a Nigerian prince!!
That was my uncle, he was a prince b4 he came here…he only want his money, no need to cry about it!
Rodney u plonker!!!!!!!
The money was only resting in his account your honour….
The spoon!!
What an idiot. Should have used bitcoin.
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