Because having a good time is “un-Islamic.”
KANO, Nigeria — A bomb blast at a police beer garden killed at least 10 people Sunday in the troubled northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri where Islamists are active, a military source and a witness said.
Hours earlier, a leading politician was shot dead in the same city, while police sources and residents reported a wave of shootings overnight Saturday that killed nine people, including three retired police officers.
“The bomb was planted at the middle of the ‘mammy market’ and at least 10 people have been killed and several others seriously injured from the explosion,” said an army officer who preferred not to be named.
The so-called mammy market beer gardens are open air pubs and eateries found around police or military barracks, open to both security personnel and civilians.
Brigadier-General Jack Okechukwu Nwaogbo, the commander of a crack military unit deployed a week ago to curb the unrest in the area, confirmed the attack, saying they had so far recorded eight deaths.
“There has been a bomb explosion at a market belonging to the police in Wulari area of the city,” Nwaogbo told AFP on the phone from Maiduguri.
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