Posted: August 3, 2012 - 15:15
A suicide bomber attacked the Central Mosque in
Potiskum during Friday prayers killing the orderly of the Emir of Fika, Dr. Muhammadu Idrissa.
The suicide bomber and the
emir's police orderly died
immediately. The bomber had
targetted the Emir directly by the orderly reportedly
blocked him from the reaching the Emir and died in
the course of his doing so.
The attacks on traditional rulers in the north marks a shift in the strategy employed by Islamist militant
group Boko Haram, which had
vowed to attack christians,
government officials, security agents and
traditional rulers it suspects of collaborating with the army and police in hunting down its members.

source saharareporters.com/news-page/suicide-bomber-kills-orderly-emir-fika-potiskum