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May 31, 2011

Islamist Explosions Kill at Least 10 in Nigeria

 
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pup> WestAfricaPolice Probe Deadly Nigeria Blasts

VoA News: Police in northern Nigeria are investigating bomb blasts that
ripped through a bar at a military barracks late Sunday, killing at least 10
people.

No one has claimed responsibility for the three explosions, which went off
in the city of Bauchi a few hours after the inauguration of President
Goodluck Jonathan in the capital, Abuja.

Police on Sunday put the death toll at 10 but other officials say the number
is likely higher. At least 25 people were wounded in the blasts.

Police are also looking into two separate bombings in the norther city of
Zaria. An explosion in a beer parlor Sunday wounded two. There was another
blast in Zaria Monday. It is unclear if anyone was wounded in the second
attack. 

President Jonathan faces the task of uniting a country plagued by frequent
political and sectarian violence.

More than 800 people died in post-election violence after Mr. Jonathan was
declared the winner of the April presidential election.

Opposition parties are challenging the election results in court, saying the
electoral commission falsified the final results.

Many people in Muslim-majority northern Nigeria believed someone from their
region should be the next leader after Mr. Jonathan's predecessor, a Muslim,
died in office.

Nigeria's ruling People's Democratic Party has a tradition of rotating its
presidential nominations between Muslims from the north and Christians from
the south, like Mr. Jonathan. The country of 140 million is split almost
evenly between the two religious groups.

Political and economic conflicts sometimes escalate into fighting, most
often in the central city of Jos, where thousands have been killed in
violence over the past decade

 



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