mosques in northern Nigeria were bombed Tuesday night at the close
of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan.
Abdul Maidala said that the first bomb went off by a mosque near the
palace of a local emir at about 7:30 p.m. and the second exploded a few
minutes later in Yobe State, one of three northeastern Nigerian states
that have been under emergency rule for more than a year.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks but Boko
Haram militants are widely blamed, having killed thousands of people
this year alone.
Boko Haram wants to impose its extreme version of Islamic Shariah law
and it frequently targets moderate Muslim clerics, civilians, mosques
and children.
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