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Monday, July 20, 2015
Nigeria’s Boko Haram, the Islamic terrorist group, once again chose to take the Muslim holy day of Friday to carry out what appeared to be a suicide bombing. A person wearing a suicide vest blew up in the open-air praying grounds in the city of Damaturu in northeastern Nigeria. At least 15 people died as a result of the suicide bomb.
The area would normally have been more crowded but due to the bombing just the night before in the shopping market, people were fearful of coming out. On the previous night, July 16, two bomb blasts killed 50, according to the National Emergency Management Agency.
According to a statement from the military one of the bombers was only a child and the other was an elderly woman. The Boko Haram have begun to use women and girl bombers in recent weeks, turning some of their hundreds of captives into weapons. A military bomb disposal expert has told The Associated Press that almost all the female bombers are strapped with explosives that are remotely detonated.
“No amount of terrorist acts would deter our resolve to stamp out terrorism and insurgency in our fatherland,” said a statement from army spokesman Col. Sani Kukasheka Usman.
In what one could term as good news on the Boko Haram front, 19 members of the group have been reportedly killed in Chad. Reports out of Nigeria’s neighbor say that at least 19 Boko Haram fighters and two Chadian soldiers were killed in combat July 17 after the Islamic group attacked a Chadian village on the banks of Lake Chad.
Chad seems to be having better luck fighting the terrorists than Nigeria, with its president Idriss Deby swearing that he will crush the group. “Chad will never bend in the face Boko Haram and I promise you that Boko Haram will disappear,” he told a group of Muslim clerics.
Niger has also been active in the battle against the insurgency with reports having the Niger army killing at least 30 suspected Boko Haram fighters.
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