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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Wed Jul 22, 2015, 09:35 PM Jul 2015

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Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Many dead in Gombe bombing

Source: BBC

Reports from Nigeria say at least two bombs have ripped through two bus stations in the northern city of Gombe.

At least 29 people have been killed in the blasts, a Red Cross official told the Reuters news agency.

Earlier in the day, suicide bombers killed at least 11 people in neighbouring Cameroon.

At least 49 people were killed in blasts at a market in Gombe last week. That attack was blamed on Boko Haram militants.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-33631744

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Nigeria's Boko Haram crisis: Many dead in Gombe bombing (Original Post) Little Tich Jul 2015 OP

What a nightmare place Nigeria has become to live in. JimDandy Jul 2015 #1

Nigeria is a large place. AngryAmish Jul 2015 #2

JimDandy

(7,318 posts)

1. What a nightmare place Nigeria has become to live in.

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Wed Jul 22, 2015, 09:55 PM

Jul 2015

I often wonder if all my former Nigerian college mates (one of whom I dated and was a hunk) are safe.

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)

2. Nigeria is a large place.

Reply to JimDandy (Reply #1)

Wed Jul 22, 2015, 10:05 PM

Jul 2015

Odds are with the hunk.

America's actions against Biafra and the Igbo were disgusting. We all are covered in shame.

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