Suicide bombers die in failed plot at Ethiopia football match
By Aaron Maasho | Reuters – 6 hours ago






By Aaron Maasho

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two Somali suicide bombers who had planned to kill football fans during Ethiopia's World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria on Sunday blew themselves up accidentally before carrying out the attack, the Ethiopian government said on Monday.

The explosion on Sunday happened in the upscale Bole district of the capital, about 5 km (3 miles) from Addis Ababa Stadium where thousands of fans were gathering for the match.

"They were Somali nationals and plotted to carry out a suicide attack disguised as fans on either the stadium or areas where large crowds gathered to watch the game," government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said.

Explosives, arms, hand grenades and football shirts were found at the scene of the blast, at a residential address an hour before kick-off, Shimeles said. Three suspects were detained. The Bole district has a small Somali refugee community.

"Heavy police presence must have caused their nervousness and state of agitation which led to the detonation that caused their own death," Shimeles said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist rebels have vowed to exact revenge on Ethiopia for sending troops to Somalia to fight the al Qaeda-linked militants, alongside African Union forces from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya.

Ethiopia says it has thwarted attacks over the past two years which it has blamed on domestic rebel groups as well as the Somali insurgents.

However, it has so far been spared the sorts of attacks carried out in nearby countries - such as the siege at the Nairobi mall last month and an attack on football fans in Uganda in 2010.

(Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Robin Pomeroy)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/suicide-bombers-die-failed-plot-ethiopia-football-match-211058450--sow.html#w9eC3Qd

ok...

MEANWHILE : I AM FIRST TO COMMENT....... I DEDICATE THIS TO NLANDER WASKI FOR SHOWING ME THE WAY

How come

dats terrible

Wake up call for Nigeria. Security should be doubled

abasi ubong! I cover we players with the blood of bros J.

Good for them. Thank God they couldn't get to Tђξ Stadium.Rest in hell

Instead of them to have focus on providing maximum security for the match,they almost left that security lapse. At the end of the match,they now pick a fight with Nigerians just because they lost the match,instead of them to take the fight to the Somali insurgents.

I said this some weeks ago (Sept 25) that my worry about the match is the contiguity of this Ethiopia with Somalia.

https://www.nairaland.com/1453395/ethiopia-play-super-eagles-october#18359579

imperiouxx: Under tight security I'd suggest. Ethiopia is contiguous to Kenya and Somalia. I want my super eagles safe for the world cup.... As the reigning African champion, we've got lot of neighborhood beef..... All eyez on us!

Somalia is a failed state. They need to be colonized. I wish Nigeria/Kenya/SA would combine effort and take over that country.

Cray!!!

Na them problem be that, them no get another thing to do for this life? They've really lost their focus, na players and fans them come they fight again. Can anybody tell me who their target is.

Assuming those people succed it would have been very blody.

The God of football is alive, he didn't let them succeed.

Thank God the Nigerian contingent came into the country,played same day and left the same day.

If the Eagles came into the country and stayed a few days to the game Nigerians would have been mourning by now.Thank God for his mercies

Good for them...useless group of people...

Thank God it didn't work.. But that would not have stopped Emenike from scoring that goalazo.

happy sallah

hmmm

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there goes thier 72 virgins and an eternity of fo**ing
damn shame!

Akshow: abasi ubong! I cover we players with the blood of bros J.

u dey kraze ni or mad ni...he ain't bro j but ur MESSIAH THE ONLY WAY TO THE FATHER,better booked ur salvation b4 its too late.i hate it wen u flex wit lucifer in hell BE SAVED RESPECT JESUS CHRIST....!!!

That's very bad,thank God that their plans didn't work.The eagle will keep on flying high,Even in d presence of our enemies. Amen

And some 'white' coach called Saintfeit would have the audacity to proclaim Calabar as an unsafe city... Only God knows what would have been if the pigs had succeeded on Sunday.

Terrorists are ALL pigs! KILL them!!!!

Many are still carrying their corpse (sins, pains, regrets, disappointments, anxieties e.t.c) all around despite all the offers of help Matthew 11:28-30, may God open their eyes to accept help in Christ Jesus our Lord, savior and redeemer. STOP CARRYING YOUR CORPSE AROUND AND GIVE IT TO JESUS

The scripture that readily came to mind;

O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God-through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.

Romans 7: 24-25

Stay blessed and remain rapturable

We thank God

Tank God, he died alone!

SuyaEater: Suicide bombers die in failed plot at Ethiopia football match
By Aaron Maasho | Reuters – 6 hours ago






By Aaron Maasho

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two Somali suicide bombers who had planned to kill football fans during Ethiopia's World Cup qualifying match against Nigeria on Sunday blew themselves up accidentally before carrying out the attack, the Ethiopian government said on Monday.

The explosion on Sunday happened in the upscale Bole district of the capital, about 5 km (3 miles) from Addis Ababa Stadium where thousands of fans were gathering for the match.

"They were Somali nationals and plotted to carry out a suicide attack disguised as fans on either the stadium or areas where large crowds gathered to watch the game," government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said.

Explosives, arms, hand grenades and football shirts were found at the scene of the blast, at a residential address an hour before kick-off, Shimeles said. Three suspects were detained. The Bole district has a small Somali refugee community.

"Heavy police presence must have caused their nervousness and state of agitation which led to the detonation that caused their own death," Shimeles said.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist rebels have vowed to exact revenge on Ethiopia for sending troops to Somalia to fight the al Qaeda-linked militants, alongside African Union forces from Uganda, Burundi and Kenya.

Ethiopia says it has thwarted attacks over the past two years which it has blamed on domestic rebel groups as well as the Somali insurgents.

However, it has so far been spared the sorts of attacks carried out in nearby countries - such as the siege at the Nairobi mall last month and an attack on football fans in Uganda in 2010.

(Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Editing by Drazen Jorgic and Robin Pomeroy)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/suicide-bombers-die-failed-plot-ethiopia-football-match-211058450--sow.html#w9eC3Qd

U mean Ethiopias loss triggered d bomb prematurely?*Funny!*

Pitiful.

O'biara egbu'm ga egbu oweya


Oluwa got our back


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