Many feared killed as female suicide bomber attacks college in Kano

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Not again. Another female suicide bomber blew herself up at Aminu Kano College of Islamic Studies this afternoon July 30th around 2.45 as students were checking their results in the school.

Kano State Police Command confirmed the blast but didn't state the number of casualties.

Have you guys noticed how it's now women blowing themselves up?

Yobe Police Confirm Attacks In Mosques

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Yobe police confirmed the attacks launched in two mosques of Potiskum yesterday evening.
Speaking with NAN on the bombings, the state police spokesperson Nansak Chewang said:
"We are still working on the details to get the authentic figures of casualties in the bomb attacks in Potiskum."

Boko Haram Have Turned 15,000 Eager Students Into Illitrates

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The menace of Boko Haram on the educational sector of the country has been tragic with over 70 teachers and 100 students slaughtered and forcing about 15,000 potential students out of school.
This was made known by Amnesty International in a report released on Thursday titled “‘Keep Away From Schools or We’ll Kill You’: Education Under Attack in Nigeria”
In its report Amnesty Inteenational described the gruesome attacks on the educational front as an absolute disregard for the right to life and the right to education as well as crime against humanity.
Due to the sporadic attacks on teachers and pupils  almost all schools in Bama, Baga, Jajeri, Umarari Garnam, Mai Malari, Mungono and Gamboru were forced to close between February 2012 and June 2013, the report stated. It called on the government to live up to its responsibility of providing protection for schools in the region, investigating these attacks and bringing those responsible to justice.

Death toll rises to 78 in Yobe student attack

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The death toll at the College of Agriculure, Gujba ,Yobe State has risen to 78. At least 50 of them were students who were attacked in the early hours of yesterday morning as they slept in their hostel. Some were shot, others were butchered with swords and knives. The gunmen, suspected to be Boko Haram sect members later moved to houses around the hostel, killing residents they find. Then they blocked the Damaturu-Maiduguri road and killed travellers. So far, 78 bodies have been counted, with many more people still unaccounted for. A student of the college who survived the massacre explained what happened...

Boko Haram Militants Open Fire In Church Killing Pastor, Two Kids

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Suspected Boko Haram Islamists on Thursday opened fire in a church in Nigeria’s restive northeast, killing the pastor and his two children before setting fire to the building and fleeing, the military said.
Boko Haram, which has said it is fighting to create an Islamic state in mainly Muslim northern Nigeria, has repeatedly attacked churches in its four-year insurgency.
“Unknown gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists attacked” the church in Yobe state early on Thursday, area military spokesman Eli Lazarus said in a statement.
“During the attack, a pastor and his two children were killed,” he said.
The church “and two other houses in the community were burnt by the gunmen before fleeing the scene of the incident,” the statement further said.

PHOTOS: Shocking details of the torture faced by hostages of the Kenyan Mall attack

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The siege  is officially over but shocking details continue to emerge about what the hostages went through while forces tried to takeover the mall. The details are sickening and unimaginable..

Below is the report by Daily Mail 

Soldiers told of the horrific torture meted out by terrorists in the Nairobi mall massacre yesterday with claims hostages were dismembered, had their eyes gouged out and were left hanging from hooks in the ceiling.

Men were said to have been castrated and had fingers removed with pliers before being blinded and hanged. 

Dead Boko Haram Leader, Shekau Appears In New Video Says "I Am Alive & Will Only Die At The Appointed Time"

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Leader of the most dreaded and wanted Boko Haram Terrorists, Abubakar Shekau, today, Wednesday, said the Nigerian Military should bury itself in shame because he is alive.

Shekau also claimed responsibility of Tuesday, 17th September, 2013 attacks in Benisheik, Borno State where over 160 people were either shot dead or slaughtered and hundreds of houses burnt.
The then Joint Task Force (JTF) spokesman in Borno State, Lt Col Sagir Musa, had issued a statement on 19th August, 2013 to the effect that “Intelligence report available to the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Restore Order revealed that Abubakar Shekau, the most dreaded and wanted terrorists leader may have died.

Kenyan Mall Attack finally over

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The 4-day siege at Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya is finally over. Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation a few hours ago, saying they have defeated the terrorists and arrested eleven of them. The president said three floors of the mall collapsed during clearing efforts and trapped some people. He said Kenyan forces killed 5 terrorists and are currently sweeping the mall for explosives.

KENYA MALL ATTACK: "You’re A Very Bad Man" - 4yr Old Kid Confronts Gunman Who Gave Him Chocolate & Begged For Forgiveness

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A four-year-old British boy caught up in the Kenya mall massacre showed astonishing bravery by confronting a marauding gunman who ended up begging for his forgiveness.

Elliot Prior, from Windsor, Berkshire, told one of the terrorists that he was a 'very bad man' as he protected his mother, Amber, who had been shot in the leg, and six-year-old sister Amelie.

 

Incredibly, the attacker took pity on the family and bizarrely handed the children Mars bars before telling them 'Please forgive me, we are not monsters.'

PHOTOS:29-Year-Old British Woman Presumed To Be Behind The Attack On Kenya Shopping Mall

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Speculation is growing that terrorism suspect Samantha Lewthwaite from Northern Ireland, dubbed the White Widow, had been killed as Kenyan military forces attempted to end the three-day siege at a Nairobi shopping mall.
Americans and a British woman were among the terrorists who attacked the mall, killing more than 60 people, Kenya's foreign minister said today.

Amina Mohamed said the attackers included "two or three Americans" and "one Brit". She told the PBS NewsHour programme that the Americans were 18 to 19 years old, of Somali or Arab origin and lived "in Minnesota and one other place" in the US.
The woman is believed to be Lewthwaite, from Banbridge, who is already wanted in Kenya on terror charges.

Kenyan mall attack: How Event Unfolded plus names of terrorists and victimsinvolved

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Kenyan special forces were today locked in a fight to the death with Islamic terrorists who have been barricaded inside a Nairobi mall with up to 40 hostages since Saturday.

Witnesses described hearing four large explosions at the Westgate Shopping Centre followed by fierce gun fire after the military tried to break the three day siege by gaining access from the roof. 

It is feared that some of the gunmen inside may have blown themselves up, though a Kenyan government minister said that militants had set fire to some mattresses in a supermarket as a decoy.

Update: It's been confirmed that the terrorists didn't blow themselves up, they set ablaze mattresses they got from one of the supermarkets in the mall, as a diversion. The terrorists have been corned in one of the rooms inside the mall.

JTF, boko haram in bloody battle in kano •15 killed

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THE Joint Task Force (JTF) in Kano on Easter Sunday shot dead 14 suspected terrorists during a gun duel when they stormed their bomb factory hideout at Yan’Awaki area of Unguwa Uku quarters in Kano metropolis.
However, a source who preferred anonymity said the 14 terrorists were consumed by their own homemade Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) targeted at the JTF who raided the hideout
According to the source, when the JTF stormed the area and the terrorists felt that their time was up and there was no escape route, they then detonated the explosives which consumed them.
Our source further disclosed that security operatives also foiled a suicide bomb attempt when a bomb-laden Golf car was intercepted at Yan’Awaki area of Unguwa Uku during which they recovered a cache of arms.
It was also learnt that one  soldier was killed, while another one sustained injuries when the JTF operatives confronted the terrorists.

The JTF spokesman, Captain Ikedichi Iweha, confirmed that 14 terrorists were killed while 14 AK-47 rifles were recovered during the battle with the terrorists.
Captain Iweha also disclosed that one soldier was killed during the confrontation, while another one sustained injuries, adding that the entire the area had been combed by security agents in the early morning of Sunday.