ISIS Boko Haram Affiliate Release Pictures Of Abuja Suicide Bombers

Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants, who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic
State, have claimed responsibility for a series of suicide bombings near the
Nigerian capital that killed 18 people and left dozens wounded last week.

The terrorist group released a statement on Twitter on Sunday along with three photos
of suicide attackers involved in Friday’s deadly blasts. The first two attacks happened in
Kuje township, where a suicide bomber attacked a police station while another bomb
was detonated at a nearby market. The third device exploded in Nyanya at a bus stop.
According to the latest death toll, 18 people lost their lives, while 41 others were
injured, according to Abuja Zonal, the Coordinator of the National Emergency
Management Agency.
The blasts in the Federal Capital Territory happened in an area where more than 3,000
persons displaced by Boko Haram are currently living. Police sources told local papers
on Sunday that the most likely option was that the attacks had been conducted by
fighters hiding among the displaced persons living around the capital.

                                                             
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“The bombings could not have been carried out by terrorists from outside Abuja, but by
insurgents who have been hiding in the FCT, particularly among the IDPs,” a source told
Nigeria's Punch publication. “The police are focusing on the displaced persons because
they believe some of them could be
Boko Haram sympathizers, who are working for the sect.”
President Muhammadu Buhari who visited the victims on Sunday said that he will
continue to fight terrorism. Meanwhile, Nigeria’s armed forces on Sunday once again
vowed to eradicate terrorism in the country by December.
“Our will cannot be broken; evil will never triumph over good,” Buhari wrote on twitter.
“We will be rid of this evil stalking our land.”

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the bomb attacks in a
statement saying that the “continuing violence by Boko Haram is an affront to
international law, to humanity and to religious faith.”
At least 17,000 people have been killed and more than 2.5 million made homeless
since the Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009. In March this year, Boko Haram
pledged its loyalty to Islamic State militants and their caliphate stretched across Iraq
and Syria. The Nigerian extremist group seeks to establish an Islamic state on the
African continent and has intensified its incursions into neighboring Cameroon, Chad
and Niger.

Source : SaharaReporters