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Suicide bombers destroy 3 fuel tankers in northeast Nigeria
ISMAIL ABDULRAHIM Firefighters try to contain a fire following a suicide attack at petrol tankers in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by a teenage boy and girl
MICHELLE FAUL Friday, March. 3, 2017. Three suicide bombers set ablaze three fuel tankers in the center of Nige- who continued down the
Associated Press ria’s northeastern city of Maiduguri before dawn Friday, officials said, just days before a planned road toward the fuel de-
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) visit by the U.N. Security Council. pot until they were chal-
— Three suicide bombers lenged by soldiers, Gajibo
set ablaze three fuel tank- (AP Photo/Jossy Ola) said. Chukwu also said sol-
ers in the center of Nige- diers fired at one of the
ria’s northeastern city of many times have attacked bombers.
Maiduguri before dawn Fri- Maiduguri, the birthplace “They ordered them to stop
day, officials said, just days of Nigeria’s homegrown Is- but they chose to run,” Ga-
before a planned visit by lamic extremist group. jibo said.
the U.N. Security Council. An elderly woman bomber “The male suicide bomber
Soldiers fired at one of the blew herself up beside a detonated his explosives
bombers, a teenage girl, stationary tanker loaded near S. Baba (gas) fill-
to avert what could have with fuel around 3 a.m., ing station, while the girl
been a major attack on witness Mala Gajibo told was shot at by the military
the city’s main fuel depot, The Associated Press. and ran under a parked
according to the police She was accompanied truck loaded with petrol
chief and a witness. products which went up
“We are lucky. Today in flames” when her explo-
could have been another sives detonated.
sad day for us in Maidu- Increased security by Ni-
guri,” police commissioner gerian soldiers and civil-
Damian Chukwu told re- ian self-defense fighters
porters at the scene, where has averted many sui-
firefighters were dousing cide bombings in recent
several fires. months.q
The attack, outside a gas
station opposite the north-
eastern headquarters of
the Central Bank of Nige-
ria, killed only the three
bombers, said Abdulkadir
Ibrahim, spokesman for the
National Emergency Man-
agement Agency.
Officials blamed Boko
Haram insurgents who
Extremists kill 2 in Burkina
Faso; schools now targets
B. OUEDRAOGO Dah.
Associated Press Jihadists had warned
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina weeks ago of attacks if
Faso (AP) — Jihadists on schools didn’t close or
motorbikes killed two peo- teach only the Quran.
ple including a school offi- “One has only to recognize
cial early Friday in a village that the Soum no longer
in Burkina Faso’s north and belongs to us,” said Moussa
then went to other villages Eric Ouedraogo, a teacher
demanding that schools in the province.
close, a provincial official Earlier this week, jihadists
said. attacked two other provin-
The attack in Kourfayl ter- cial communities, injuring
rified teachers who gath- one woman and setting fire
ered in the nearby pro- to police stations, buildings
vincial capital for safety, and homes in Baraboule
said High Commissioner of and Tongomayel. q
Soum province Mohamed
