Boko Haram claims responsibility for 2 bombings
Friday, April 27, 2012Omoba
A radical Islamist sect has claimed responsibility
for two bombings that killed at least seven people at the offices of a major
Nigerian newspaper. In a statement published Thursday night by the Premium Times website, a
spokesman for Boko Haram said it would attack media again over what the group
felt was inaccurate coverage.
A journalist with long-standing ties to the sect later told The Associated
Press that the statement came from the group. The journalist spoke on condition
of anonymity over concerns about his safety.
A suicide bomber attacked the Abuja office of ThisDay newspaper on Thursday
morning, as another bomber attacked an office that ThisDay shared with other
newspapers in Kaduna. Boko Haram has been blamed for hundreds of deaths in Nigeria this year alone. Read the full interview here
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