Allah works in mysterious ways.

Via BBC:

At least 25 people died when gunmen attacked a prison, a police station, a bank and a bar in an eastern Nigerian town, police said.

No group has said it carried out the attack but police said they suspected Islamist militants Boko Haram. […]

In a separate incident, two suspected suicide bombers died in the northern city of Kano on Saturday when their explosives went off prematurely, police said.

Kano was the scene of a suicide car bomb attack at a bus stop last Tuesday that killed more than 20 people.

Boko Haram says its members are fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north.

The group has been blamed for the deaths of some 1,400 people in central and northern Nigeria since 2010.

It is believed to also have a presence in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad.