Friday 18 March 2016

March 18, In The History Of Nigeria.

    On this day, in the year, 2013, there was a suicide attacked against Christian civilians at a Bus Station in Kano, where forty-one people lost their lives in the car bombing that struck a bus.
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        The explosion happened some hours after another attack blamed on Boko Haram killed a teacher and injured three students in Maiduguri.

        The Volkswagen Golf packed with...
explosives and driven by three suicide bombers sped to five buses, which were being boarded by civilians, mostly Christians, to east and south Nigeria.

        The car hit one of the buses and exploded. After the explosion, people started evacuating from the remaining buses.

        A fire spread to the four remaining buses, of which numerous passengers still in them.

        Source from Vanguard claimed that the attack killed not less than sixty people.

        Though the target of the attacks is not disputed, but the buses were carrying mostly Christians, who were known as the main target of Boko Haram Sect.

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