The
leader of Boko Haram sect, Imam Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for
a car bombing of Lagos in a new video released today.
The suicide bombing carried out by a female,
was carried out near a fuel depot in Apapa area of Lagos. The car bombing could
have been a major disaster had it worked as planned according to a report
released by newsmen the second day after the bombing.
Shekau
also said that the sect was behind the recent Abuja bombings that killed many
people in a shopping plaza located in the federal capital.
The AFP
news agency which received a copy of Mr. Shekau’s video reported that Shekau
also issued fresh threats of impending attacks.
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REPORT:
Contrary
to information sent out by Lagos State officials that the explosion in the
Apapa area of Lagos came from a gasoline tanker explosion,journalist has now
learned that the frightening event was a car bombing.
Two
security sources disclosed that the explosion was apparently carried out by a
female suicide bomber and was aimed at igniting several gasoline depots in the
area.
The
9.15 p.m. explosion happened Tuesday on Creek Road near the Burma Road
junction. One security source said the explosion could have triggered a massive
inferno and inflicted a horrifying scale of casualties as well as damage to
properties in the Apapa area, which is both a residential area as well as the
hub of economic activities, including shipping, manufacturing, and storage of
petrochemical products.
Our
source said the suicide bomber apparently sought to ignite a series of gas
distribution plants and gasoline depots owned by Folawiyo Energy some 150
meters away from the site of the explosion.
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