(Reuters) - A suicide car
bomber on Sunday
attacked a military
checkpoint in Nigeria's
northeastern city of
Damaturu, killing six
soldiers and two civilians,
police said. Suspicion will
fall on Islamist sect Boko
Haram, which is waging
an insurgency against
President Goodluck
Jonathan's government
across the north with
the aim of carving
out an Islamic state in a
country split evenly
between Christians and
Muslims.
"The lone suicide bomber
detonated the bomb
before the car he was in
could be stopped, killing
the six soldiers and one
civilian," Patrick
Egbmuniwe, the police
commissioner for Yobe
State, told Reuters by
telephone.
"Another civilian died of
his wounds in hospital
shortly after."
There was no immediate
claim of responsibility for
the attack in Damaturu's
Shagari housing estate.
Labeled a foreign
terrorist organization by
the United States, Boko
Haram has been behind
almost daily shootings and
bombings in the volatile
northeast.
Witness Abdullahi Sabo
said the whole
neighborhood shook when
the Damaturu bomb
exploded.
"The car blew up outside
the front of my shop, the
explosion was deadly," he
said. "After the dust
settled, many security
operatives were rushed
to the hospital."
In a separate incident,
police said suspected
sect members had shot
dead a former
commissioner for the
environment in neighboring
Borno state, the
epicenter of the Boko
Haram insurgency, in the
early hours of Saturday.

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When will this useless govt buy screening and detecting devices for the security personnel? What happened to one trillion naira they claimed they would use to acquire security gadgets and all? This is becoming very annoying. How many fathers must die for this corrupt government?

until jonathan agree to do something, i am afraid we will continue to hear news like this

Screening machine does not stop suicide bombers, do you think at all.

72 virgins per head. Multiply by 8 souls gives you 572 virgins, just for 1 earth cattle fu.cker in heaven.

I don't see the violence coming to an end any soon.

6 soldiers in 1 attack, not good at all.

gramci: 72 virgins per head. Multiply by 8 souls gives you 572 virgins, just for 1 earth cattle fu.cker in heaven.

I don't see the violence coming to an end any soon.

guy help me tell them say virgin don finish na old mama remain fo their