Islamist insurgents kill over 178 in Nigeria’s Kano

Editor’s Note: Notice the Intel Center’s logo on the upper right-hand corner of this Boko Haram video release, an indication that the CIA or Pentagon is behind this infamous terrorist group in Nigeria.

Mike Oboh
Euronews
January 22, 2012

KANO (Reuters) – Gun and bomb attacks by Islamist insurgents in the northern Nigerian city of Kano last week killed at least 178 people, a hospital doctor said on Sunday, underscoring the challenge President Goodluck Jonathan faces to prevent his country sliding further into chaos.

A coordinated series of bomb blasts and shooting sprees mostly targeting police stations Friday sent panicked residents of Nigeria’s second biggest city of more than 10 million people running for cover.

The scale of the carnage makes this by far the deadliest strike claimed by Boko Haram, a shadowy Islamist sect that started out as a clerical movement opposed to western education but has become the biggest security menace facing Africa’s top oil producer.

“We have 178 people killed in the two main hospitals,” the senior doctor in Kano’s Murtala Mohammed hospital said following Friday’s attacks, citing records from his own and the other main hospital of Nasarawa.

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This article was posted: Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 12:43 pm

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