A suicide bomber killed himself and 32 civilians Monday when he detonated explosives on the edge of a religious procession by the moderate Muslim Brotherhood in Potiskum, capital of Yobe state northeast Nigeria. Full post and more pictures after cut.................
Officials said 119 people were wounded. He quoted hospital records in Potiskum, capital of Yobe state, and spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to give information to reporters. In a separate development, gunmen attacked a prison in central Kogi state and freed 145 inmates, prison chief Omale Adams told The Associated Press. He said one inmate died in Sunday night's attack and 12 escapees were recaptured by late Monday. The prison break took place in a central part of the country that sporadically has been attacked by the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group, though authorities would not say that the insurgents were the prime suspects.
In Potiskum, Muslim Brotherhood members detained two suspects near the suicide bomber explosion and refused to hand them over to the military, said Mohammed Adamu, a tailor who was part of the parade. As the crowd began beating the suspects with fists and wooden clubs, soldiers fired several shots into the air and one bullet killed a Muslim Brotherhood member, Adamu said. One suspect turned out to be a policeman, and the crowd finally handed both over to the police. An AP reporter saw the two badly beaten men at the hospital, along with two dozen women and children injured in the blast. It is the first attack in months in Potiskum by suspected members of Boko Haram, which follows the strict Wahabi school of Islam.
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