Topic: West Africa
A shootout between Nigerian police and suspected members of the Islamist group Boko Haram has left seven dead, while 14 people have been arrested and explosives seized, authorities said Sunday.The shootout on Saturday in Kano came after a suspected Boko Haram leader ...
An explosion on Saturday at a house allegedly used to make home-made bombs in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri killed three suspected Islamist sect members, the military said.Lieutenant Colonel Hassan Mohammed, spokesman of a special force deployed in the city, said "the ...
MAIDUGURI/KANO (Reuters) - Nigerian authorities raided a bomb making factory Saturday belonging to suspected members of an Islamist sect in the northeast, the military said, after gun and bomb attacks across northern Nigeria over four days killed at least seven people.Militant group ...
Gunmen bombed a military checkpoint in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, where an Islamist sect has been blamed for scores of attacks, the army said on Thursday, reporting no casualties.A military spokesman for a special force deployed in the troubled city, ...
A powerful bomb blast targeting soldiers followed by gunfire rocked the troubled Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Tuesday, with at least 10 people killed, an official and a hospital source said.Residents claimed soldiers reacted to the bombing by shooting indiscriminately and burning ...
Three bomb blasts targeting bars where fans watched the Real Madrid-Barcelona football match rocked the Nigerian city of Jos, officials said Sunday, with one death and 10 injuries reported.The bombs were said to have been planted near outdoor bars -- called "viewing ...
Two blasts rocked the Nigerian city of Jos Saturday, residents and an official said, with one death and a number of injuries reported at a bar where fans watched the Barcelona-Real Madrid match.One of the explosions was said to have occurred near ...
A powerful explosion rocked the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, wounding many others and causing panic, but the cause of the blast remained unclear.Witnesses and officials described a grisly scene at the blast site, with ...
Bomb attacks by suspected Islamist militants Sunday left three people dead in northern Nigeria's Bauchi State, an official and residents said.The suspected members of the radical Boko Haram sect, armed with heavy machine guns, threw explosives and fired into a police compound ...
Nigerian authorities have arrested members of criminals gangs that profited from fears of Islamist attacks through scams that involved sending threatening text messages, secret police said on Wednesday.Authorities said they had arrested members of four different gangs involved in the scams, which ...
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