Bomb Blasts Kill 55 in Northeast Nigerian City of Maiduguri

[Capt. Obvious]

Source: Bloomberg

More than 80 people injured by three explosions in Maiduguri
Explosions hit a mosque, dining area and computer center


At least 55 people were killed by three bomb blasts in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Sunday, according to a local hospital official.

The bombs that detonated at about 7:20 p.m. also injured 85 people, Tunde Sotanmi, the security chief of the State Specialist Hospital Maiduguri, told reporters in the city on Monday. Casualties may continue to rise, he said.

Nigerian army spokesman Colonel Sani Usman confirmed the attacks, though said details weren’t immediately clear. The explosives were detonated at a mosque, a dining area and an computer center, according to Hassan Ibrahim, a local pro-government militia member in the city.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-21/bomb-blasts-kill-46-in-northeast-nigerian-city-of-maiduguri

[maxsolomon]

1. Boko Haram are just awful

ISIL looks rational in comparison.

Look at this region on Google Maps. It's hard to see where they could hide out. It's scrubland: dry, often treeless.

There's got to be a way to ferret their base camps out using the technology we use in Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. Etc.

Unless they operate from inside Maiduguri: it's a city of over 1 million people!