Orang Islam lagi yang bikin onar?
Orang Islam lagi yang bikin rusuh?
Besar kemungkinan.
Tapi kita tunggu dululah berita selanjutnya.
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Last Update: Sunday, 9 June 2013 KSA 00:28 - GMT 21:28
Islamic extremists kill 13 in northeast Nigeria
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Suspected Islamic extremists who hid their assault rifles inside a coffin
launched an attack against vigilantes in a northeast Nigerian
city. (File photo: Reuters)
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The Associated Press, Nigeria
Suspected Islamic extremists who hid their assault rifles inside a
coffin launched an attack against vigilantes in a northeast Nigeria city at the
heart of the country’s bloody insurgency, killing 13 people
before being shot by security forces, witnesses said Saturday.
The attack happened Friday in Maiduguri, the spiritual home of the
extremist network Boko Haram that’s now targeted as part of a regional
military offensive against extremists in the West African nation.
Meanwhile, soldiers shot dead another eight suspected Boko Haram
fighters in the city Thursday, leaving their bodies in a ditch in the
restive city.
Friday’s attack targeted members of a new youth
vigilante group that’s sprung up in Maiduguri comprised of men who point
out suspected Boko Haram members to the military. The gunmen hid their
Kalashnikov assault rifles inside a coffin draped in white cloth as if
being prepared for a burial, allowing them to drive through the city’s
numerous military checkpoints without being searched, witness Sheriff
Aji said. When they approached the vigilantes in a van, they pulled the
rifles out from the coffin and opened fire, killing the civilians, Aji
said.
“They continued shooting until they ran out of
ammunition, then some courageous youth rounded them up and handed them
over to the soldiers, who shot them dead as they attempted to escape,”
Aji told The Associated Press. Aji said he counted eight dead suspected
Boko Haram gunmen after the shooting.
Lt. Col. Sagir Musa, a
military spokesman in the city, could not be reached for comment
Saturday as security forces have shut down mobile phone networks
throughout the northeast as part of the offensive.
The shooting
comes after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency
May 14 in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states - a territory of around 155,000
square kilometers (60,000 square miles) of the Sahel bordering
Cameroon, Chad and Niger. In a nationally televised speech, Jonathan
admitted the nation had lost control of some villages and towns to
extremist fighters already responsible for more than 1,600 killings
since 2010 alone, according to an AP count.
In the time since,
the military claims it has killed and arrested suspected extremists.
However, military officials who spoke to journalists on a recent trip
through the northeast acknowledged many fighters likely fled with heavy
weaponry including anti-aircraft guns and still remain a major threat to
Africa’s most populous nation.
Friday’s attack likely was
retaliation for vigilantes pointing out eight Boko Haram fighters to
soldiers on Thursday. A security official told the AP that soldiers shot
dead eight of the suspected Boko Haram members on Thursday night. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to
speak to journalists.
On Saturday, an AP reporter saw the
corpses of the eight men killed Thursday. They lay tangled together in a
ditch in Maiduguri, beginning to bloat under the hot sun of this arid
region. Soldiers largely have stopped carrying corpses of suspected
insurgents to local hospitals, instead allowing them to rot as a morbid
warning to others.
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